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In Kyiv region, the Security Service of Ukraine thwarted an ordered murder of a well-known public activist, co-founder of one of the volunteer battalions. The killer was supposed to shoot the man 1 in August 2026 of the year during his morning walk with his dog in the forest, but he was detained even earlier, while awaiting the right moment in a woodland belt. The operation was coordinated personally by the head of the SBU, Major General Oleksandr Poklad. The perpetrator of the order turned out to be 19-year-old recruited FSB resident of Mykolaiv. The arrest was announced by the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Security Service of Ukraine.
According to investigators, the suspect acted on instructions from a representative of the Russian FSB and intended to kill the well-known public activist. In July 2026, the man began communicating with a representative of the Russian security service via Telegram, where he also repeatedly posted messages in support of Nazi ideology.
For this, the agent had long monitored the hourly daily schedule and movement routes of the potential victim, and also received coordinates of the hideout from the FSB from which he took a pistol with magazines and a silencer. 31 July 2026 of the year the suspect arrived with weapons at a woodland belt in the Vyshhorod district of Kyiv region, where a pre-arranged motorcycle awaited him. According to the plan, he was to spend the night in the forest and in the morning 1 August shoot the man from an ambush with several shots during a walk with a dog.
The plan was not realized — SBU officers exposed the hostile plan in advance and detained the killer in an ambush even during preparation for the attempted murder. During searches of the detainee, three pistols with silencers and ammunition, as well as smartphones with evidence of work for the FSB, were seized.
The detainee was informed of suspicion of high treason, preparation for murder for hire, and illegal handling of weapons under part 2 of article 111, part 1 of article 14 and paragraph 11 of part 2 of article 115, as well as part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The man came under the gaze of the invaders because of his activity on social networks. The man remains in custody; he faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The investigation is ongoing under the supervision of the prosecutor’s office.
Pre-trial investigation is conducted under procedural guidance of the Mykolaiv regional prosecutor's office, and the direct special operation was carried out by employees of the Security Service of Ukraine in Mykolaiv region under the coordination of the department of counterintelligence of the agency. Investigators established that after recruitment the FSB sent its agent specifically to the capital to commit a high-profile murder — selecting a veteran victim was intended to emphasize the symbolic and intimidating effect of the terrorist act.
Earlier Informator reported that in Odesa they were preparing to kill a district court judge — a man intended to seize a judge’s money and hired a serviceman who was actually cooperating with the investigation. The DSB controlled the preparation of the crime from the start and detained the organizer exactly at the moment of transferring funds for weapon purchase. We also wrote that in Poltava region an RF agent planned to kill a military unit commander — a recruited Russian student made a homemade explosive device, but the SBU detained him while attempting to set fire to a truck for another supervisor's task.
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