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Russian special services devised a cynical scheme to destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters: they offered the servicemen free drugs, which turned out to be a deadly dose of methadone.
Russian security services developed a cynical and deadly scheme to liquidate Ukrainian servicemen through postal shipments under the guise of free drugs. To implement the bloody plan, the enemy recruited a 17-year-old girl from Zhytomyr region, whom police have already detained and whom they have informed of suspicion, according to the National Police of Ukraine.
Trap scheme
The scheme to eliminate Ukrainian defenders operated through the popular messaging app Telegram. Representatives of Russian special services found servicemen and offered them apparently free narcotic substances.
After receiving parcels by mail from the militants, they demanded the mandatory condition from the enemy curator—to take the contents of the capsules directly on video. However, the recipients did not realize that inside the packages there was not a “fun” substance at all, but a lethal dose of methadone (a synthetic medicinal drug from the opioids group, overdose of which causes respiratory depression, coma, and death).
17-year-old “mailwoman”
To distribute the poison, the Russian curator recruited a 17-year-old resident of Zhytomyr region. The girl carried out the “dirty work”:
packaging deadly methadone into capsules;
processing and sending parcels through post offices;
indicating fake sender data in the documents to hide traces.
For each completed task, the Russian customers promised a minor a reward of at least five thousand hryvnias. As a result of this hostile operation in Zhytomyr region, two Ukrainian military personnel who left their military units on their own have already died.
Police work
Investigating the deaths of two soldiers, law enforcement traced the 17-year-old packaging operator and identified a complete circle of people who were awaiting similar “gifts.” Thanks to police operations, at least four more killings of servicemen in four regions of Ukraine were prevented:
Kirovohrad region;
Zaporizhzhia region;
Chernivtsi region;
Ivano-Frankivsk region.
The detained minor was informed of suspicion of participating in the premeditated murder of two people, committed by prior conspiracy, and in illegal trafficking of drugs for the purpose of distribution. She faces a sentence of up to 15 years of imprisonment.
Warnings to servicemen
Acting head of the National Police Maksym Tsutskhiridze addressed Ukrainian defenders and their relatives with a call to be as careful as possible:
“Be careful with new acquaintances. A person who offers help, sends gifts, or persistently seeks a personal meeting may be carrying out an enemy assignment. Do not take medicines or other preparations, as well as food or drinks of dubious origin from unfamiliar people.”
The police urge: if you or your comrades are pressured to try something, pressured, or threatened — immediately save the correspondence and call the number 102. Timely information can save lives.
Earlier it was reported that investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, stopped the activity of a transnational cocaine supply channel from European countries to Ukraine.
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