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The Security Service of Ukraine prevented a series of high-profile terrorist acts, arson, and a targeted assault that were planned to be carried out in Ukraine.
As a result of a multi-stage operation, a former head of the State Emergency Service (SES) and his accomplices who were preparing an assassination attempt against a public activist were charged.
The SBU also documented crimes by the head of the Chernihiv regional organization of a well-known political force, who, hiding outside Ukraine, according to investigators, organized and financed terrorist acts and arsons in western and northern Ukraine. According to sources at AntiCor, this refers to Oleh Averianov.
It was established that members of the criminal group planned to blow up a construction crane near a residential complex in Chernihiv.
According to the organizers’ plan, after the explosion the crane would fall onto an adjacent multi-story building and civilian cars, which could have caused numerous casualties among local residents.
To carry out the crime, the defendants recruited executors using their personal connections in the criminal environment.
First and foremost, this was handled by another leader of the gang, who acted under the guise of the head of a regional cell of a well-known public organization.
At the same time, the criminals did not realize that at this stage every step of theirs was already being documented by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine.
As a result of preemptive actions, an operational combination was carried out, through which controlled individuals were integrated into the criminal group and an imitation explosion was staged.
In this way, SBU officers thwarted another terrorist act—the explosion of a local defense coordination center in Ivano-Frankivsk region. According to instructions received from organizers, the ‘performers’ manufactured a homemade bomb based on plastic explosive and detonators, to be later thrown into the window of an administrative building.
With the assistance of the leadership of the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Protection of Ivano-Frankivsk region, SBU officers managed to simulate an explosion on the territory of the administrative building.
After this, according to investigators, the former head of the SES ordered the explosion of private homes belonging to the head and two other judges of the Chernihiv Appellate Court, who in 2024 year sentenced him to 7 years of imprisonment for car theft.
The former top official also ordered an assassination attempt on a local activist. The target was a blogger from Chernihiv region, to whom the suspect assigned the task of shooting limbs with a firearm and dousing with sulfuric acid.
Within the framework of monitoring the crime, the attempted act, as well as arsons, was prevented, and the organizers were notified of suspicions in accordance with several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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