Saboteurs acused of setting a military vehicle and Ukrainian railways equipment on fire detained in Kyiv
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A group of saboteurs from Cherkasy and Kharkiv, who carried out arson attacks on critical infrastructure equipment and military vehicles, has been exposed in Kyiv, the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office reported on July 24.
“According to the investigation, suspects received an order
to set fire to relay and battery cabinets at the railway station in Obolon
district of Kyiv via an anonymous Telegram channel for money,” the prosecutor’s
office said.
“Having paint thinner purchased in advance for the arson,
one of the suspects poured flammable substance on the relay and battery
cabinets near the railway station and then set them on fire. At the same time,
his accomplice was filming it on video and making sure that no one interfered
with the arson. As a reward for their services, the attackers received $200,
which they divided among themselves.”
The prosecutor’s office also reported that the suspects set
fire to a Nissan Navara of a Ukrainian serviceman in the Obolon district of Kyiv,
having previously doused the vehicle with flammable liquid.
The suspects filmed their actions to provide it to their
supervisors as evidence of their work.
Sabotage ordered by Russian special services in Ukraine
Man, who set on fire military cars in Odesa was detained on
July 12. The suspect (as it turned out, he had left his military unit without
permission a few months earlier) said that he had been promised 80 thousand
hryvnias ($1.900) for the arson, but received only 937 hryvnias ($22).
Ukrainian National Police on July 16 reported that a 22-year-old resident of Rivne set fire to the cars of the
Ukrainian military on the orders of the Russians. The videos of the burned
cars were later published by Russian propaganda media, presenting them as arson
attacks on the cars of draft office employees by “Ukrainians who oppose
mobilization.”
On July 22, the SBU detained a saboteur who, on orders from Russia, set fire to
a relay cabinet of Ukrainian railways in Kyiv.
According to Ukrainian officers, the suspect first
coordinated the arson attack with a supervisor from the Russian special
services and then poured a flammable mixture on the relay cabinet.
Also, on July 23 SBU reported on detention of an FSB agent who was adjusting Russian missile strikes on the
positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (among the priority targets
were air defense positions defending Odesa) and carrying out arson attacks on
important sections of the railway in Odesa Oblast.
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