Indictment comes amid an uptick in focused assaults on Ukrainian officers and public figures.
Ukraine has arrested and indicted a person accused of assassinations and blowing up buildings on orders from Russia.
The Ukrainian prosecutor basic’s workplace mentioned on Tuesday in a press release that the suspect is accused of murdering a Ukrainian soldier and plotting the assassination of officers.
The arrest comes amid an obvious uptick in targeted assaults on Ukrainian officers and public figures, together with an area lawmaker who was killed by a automobile bomb on Friday within the metropolis of Dnipro.
The prosecutor basic’s workplace mentioned underneath the orders of Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB), the 56-year-old from the Crimean Peninsula, reportedly a persistent offender over a few years, shot a Ukrainian soldier lifeless in March 2024.
Prosecutors have additionally accused the suspect of planting an explosive underneath the automobile of Vyacheslav Zadorenko. Nevertheless, the Kharkiv official noticed the bomb, “saving his personal life”, they mentioned within the assertion.
The suspect was additionally allegedly tasked with killing the top of the Kharkiv area, Oleh Synyehubov, for a reward of $50,000.
He additionally planted and set off explosives at strategically vital buildings within the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, the assertion added.
Russia and Ukraine have focused each other’s officers in assassination plots since Moscow’s invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators claimed final Could to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in addition to the heads of Ukraine’s navy intelligence company and the SBU safety service.
Zelenskyy has mentioned there had been quite a few makes an attempt to assassinate him for the reason that begin of the warfare with Russia, which has now stretched right into a fourth yr.
The FSB didn’t touch upon Kyiv’s claims concerning the suspect.
