The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have detained eight Russian agents who were carrying out sabotage in southern Ukraine and uncovered an attempted recruitment in Lviv.
The detainees were remotely recruited men aged 19 to 73, who were offered ‘easy earnings’. Two more people were recruited by the occupiers who posed as SBU officers.
‘A local unemployed man was detained in Odesa, who, on the enemy’s order, was preparing to blow up a railway line during a train’s movement,’ – reports the SBU. Seven more individuals were detained for setting fire to relay boxes on the local railway.
In Lviv, two 19-year-old local residents were exposed. They set fire to a local postal office and the entrance doors to apartments in Lviv on the enemy’s command. The Russian special agents posed as SBU officers to recruit the youths.
The detainees have been charged under articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which provide for punishment ranging from 10 years in prison to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.