Two agents of the Security Service of Ukraine and one saboteur of the main intelligence directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine were detained by FSB officers on the territory of Russia.
As the “RG” correspondent was told at the FSB Public Relations Center, the detained resident of the Kiev region, Alexander Tsilyk, born in 1998, on the instructions of the Ukrainian military intelligence, was preparing to commit a terrorist attack on the territory of Russia.
According to the FSB DSP, Tsilyk was supposed to commit a terrorist attack by detonating two improvised explosive devices with a total weight of 1.5 kilograms in TNT equivalent.
According to his confessionary testimony during interrogation, he was recruited and acted on the instructions of Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Kirilovets – the head of the sector – an employee of the operational group of the operational department of the special reserve of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Initially, Tsilyk, accompanied by Kirilovts and two military intelligence officers, illegally crossed the Russian border and equipped a cache for explosives. During the repeated illegal crossing of the border, Alexander Tsilyk was detained red-handed while going to the scene of the crime. Improvised explosive devices were also with him.
In addition, as reported in the FSB DSP, two agents of the Security Service of Ukraine were detained: Zinovy Koval, born in 1974, and his son, Igor Koval, born in 1999. The detainees also made frank confessions on camera that they were recruited by the current employee of the SBU in the Ternopil region, Colonel Vasyl Kovalik. The father and son were tasked with collecting information about strategically important enterprises and transport infrastructure facilities, simultaneously filming them with photos and videos. According to Igor Koval, he chose the operational pseudonym “Tolik”, and his father chose the pseudonym “Bull”. For espionage work, the SBU colonel promised them and his father to pay 10 thousand dollars. Judging by the operational footage, after the arrest of the car in which the father and son of Kovali were moving, the FSB officers found there an assault rifle with a large number of magazines and eight pistols.
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