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The SBU's Counterintelligence prevented a contract killing of a well-known public figure in the Kyiv region. This concerns the head of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, Hennadiy Druzenko.
According to the SBU, security forces detained a 19-year-old agent of the FSB from Mykolaiv, whom the Russian security service recruited through activity on social media. The special operation was conducted under the personal coordination of the SBU head, Major General Oleksandr Poklad.
According to the investigation materials, the killer had been monitoring Druzenko's daily schedule for a long time and studying his movement routes. The FSB provided him with the coordinates of a cache from which he took a pistol with bullets and a silencer.
The Russian security service instructed the agent to sleep overnight in the forest near the public figure's house, and in the morning to set up an ambush and shoot him during a walk with his dog. However, SBU officers exposed the plan in advance and detained the killer in the ambush while he was preparing to carry out the attack.
During searches of the detainee, three pistols with silencers and ammunition were seized. The officers also found smartphones with evidence of his cooperation with the FSB.
According to the SBU, a 19-year-old resident of Mykolaiv was recruited through his activity on social networks. In particular, he posted messages in support of fascist and Nazi ideologies. After recruitment, the FSB sent him to Kyiv to carry out a high-profile murder.
Hennadiy Druzenko said that the killer's arrest occurred about a month and a half ago — on the day of the attack on the commander of the Charter Obolensky.
Druzenko is also known for his political statements. He previously spoke about political ambitions, and recently criticized the Ukrainian authorities.
At the start of the full-scale war, Druzenko said he ordered his subordinates to castrate captured Russian service members, emotionally referring to them as 'not people, but cockroaches.' He later apologized for those words.
In July 2024, a Moscow court for an extrajudicial sentence found Hennadiy Druzenko guilty in absentia of 5,5 years of imprisonment.
SBU investigators informed the detainee of suspicion under part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — high treason committed during wartime; part 1, 14, point 11 of part 2, 115 — preparing for willful murder for hire; as well as part 1 of 263 — illegal handling of firearms, ammunition, or explosive substances.
The detainee remains in custody. If guilt is proven, he faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
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