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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence prevented a contract killing of a well-known public figure in Kyiv region. The person targeted is Hennadiy Druzenko, head of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital.
According to the SBU, authorities detained a 19-year-old agent from Mykolaiv who was recruited by the Russian special service through activity on social networks. The operation was personally coordinated by the head of the SBU, Major General Oleksandr Poklad.
According to the investigation materials, the killer monitored Druzenko’s daily routine for a long time and studied his movement routes. The FSB provided him coordinates of a cache from which he retrieved a pistol with magazines and a silencer.
The Russian security service instructed the agent to spend the night in the forest near the public figure’s house, and in the morning arrange an ambush and shoot him during a walk with his dog. However, SBU officers exposed the plan in advance and detained the killer at the ambush while preparing to carry out the assassination.
During searches of the detainee, authorities seized three pistols with silencers and ammunition. Police also found smartphones with evidence of his collaboration 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 directed him to Kyiv to carry out a high-profile killing.
Hennadiy Druzenko stated that the killer’s arrest occurred about a month and a half earlier — on the day of the attack on the commander of the Khartiya Obolensky.
Druzenko is also known for his political statements. He previously spoke about political ambitions and has recently criticized the Ukrainian authorities.
At the start of the full-scale war, Druzenko claimed he gave his subordinates an order to castrate Russian military personnel, emotionally referring to them as “not people, but cockroaches.” He later apologized for these words.
In July 2024, a Moscow court sentenced Hennadiy Druzenko in absentia to 5,5 years in a penal colony.
SBU investigators informed the detained person of suspicion under part 2 of article 111 of the Criminal Code — high treason committed under martial law; part 1, clause 14, point 11, part 2, clause 115 — preparation for murder for hire; as well as part 1 of article 263 — illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives.
The detainee remains in custody. If found guilty, he faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
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