SBU unmasked an RF agent who was hiding after the car bombing of the head of Dnipro Left-Bank Administration Fedko

The Security Service of Ukraine’s counterintelligence has detained a Russian agent who has been evading justice for more than a year-and-a-half for organizing a terrorist attack in Dnipro. The agent is a locally based defector recruited by Russia, who, at Russia’s request, blew up the car of the head of the Left Bank Administration of Dnipro’s city council in April 2025. The SBU reports this. The official’s surname is not being disclosed by the agency, but it is known that the person referred to is Yuriy Fedko.

As a result of the homemade bomb blast, the official died in the hospital from his injuries. After carrying out the enemy’s order, the agent went underground in the regional capital. SBU counterintelligence established the agent’s whereabouts and detained him.

As the investigation found, the man was recruited by the Russians through an acquaintance who lives in the temporarily occupied Luhansk. Soon the subject received an agent assignment to eliminate a Ukrainian official who lived in a neighboring building.

To prepare the terrorist act, the offender arranged a hidden video recorder on the balcony of his apartment to identify the victim’s car and the approximate time he would leave his home.

Later the agent received coordinates from Russia of a cache from which he retrieved a homemade explosive device. On the night before the attack, the person primed the explosive material based on plastic explosive and wired it with a motion sensor, then secured the bomb under the driver's seat.

During searches of the detainee, a video recorder and two smartphones were seized, which he used in turn to contact the Russian security officer.

SBU investigators informed the agent of suspicion under part 3 of article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (terrorist act that led to a person’s death). He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property. A decision is being made regarding selecting a preventive measure for the detainee in the form of detention.

4 April 2025 year, the head of the Left Bank Administration of Dnipro, Yuriy Fedko, who is a deputy of the Dnipro City Council, was wounded during the morning blast and died in hospital several hours later.

The blast occurred on 4 April around 07:40. At the scene, the first deputy head of the National Police – head of the Main Investigations Department Maksym Tsutskiriye, police officers, SBU and prosecutors arrived.