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The Security Service of Ukraine foiled the preparation to assassinate a well-known public activist in the Kyiv region. The executor was detained during the preparation for the attack.
The killer was preparing an ambush in a forest. The SBU Counterintelligence uncovered the plans of the Russian security services to organize a targeted killing of a public figure in Kyiv region. The special operation proceeded under the personal coordination of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Major General Oleksandr Poklad. According to investigators, the probable victim was to be shot during a morning walk with a dog in the forest. For the attack, the agent had been observing the activist’s daily routine and tracking his movement routes for an extended period. The weapon was obtained from a Russian stash. To carry out the murder, the executor took from the stash, whose coordinates were provided by the FSB, a pistol with ammunition and a silencer. Following the Russian security service’s instructions, he was to spend the night in the forest near the activist’s home and in the morning to set up an ambush and fire several shots at him. SBU officers managed to thwart the plan and detained the killer directly during the preparation for the attack. Who turned out to be the perpetrator: the order for the FSB was carried out by a 19-year-old resident of Mykolaiv, whom the Russian intelligence service recruited after noticing his activity on social networks. In particular, the young man published materials in support of fascist and Nazi ideologies. After recruitment, Russian curators sent him to Kyiv to carry out the high-profile murder. During searches of the detainee, three pistols with silencers and ammunition, as well as smartphones with evidence of collaboration with the FSB, were found. The SBU investigators informed the agent of the suspicion under part 2 of article 111, part 1, paragraph 14, part 11 of article 2, part 115 and part 1 of article 263 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code. This concerns treason in wartime, preparation for intentional ordered murder, and illegal handling of weapons and ammunition. The detainee remains in custody. He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property. The special operation was conducted by officers of the SBU Directorate in Mykolaiv region under coordination of the SBU Counterintelligence Directorate and with prosecutorial supervision by the Mykolaiv regional prosecutor’s office. Photo: SBU. Sources at RBC-Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies report that the person in question is Gennadiy Druzenko. Note: Gennadiy Druzenko is a cofounder and president of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital named after Mykola Pyrohov. He also leads the board of the Constitutional Modeling Center, participated in the Revolution of Dignity, and is a veteran of the Russia-Ukraine war. Druzenko took part in fighting near the Serebriansky forest.
As a reminder, it was previously reported that the head of one of the SBU divisions was suspected in connection with violations in storing ammunition in the village of Mila, Kyiv region. After the Russian attack and subsequent detonation, 35 people died there. The case suspect has already been taken into custody.
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