Valentina Romanenko – Sunday, May 1, 2022, 12:09 PM The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claims to have captured a Russian sabotage and intelligence group that was preparing to shoot down a passenger plane and blames the Ukrainian armed forces and international partners, supplying arms to Ukraine. Source: SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtyarenko Quote: “SBU completed a multi-stage operation, in the course of which it neutralized a deep-rooted sabotage and intelligence group of the enemy. Agents of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were preparing a terrorist act – they planned to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus. “The occupiers intended to unjustifiably accuse Ukraine and our partners of attacking the plane. To carry out the provocation, the attackers wanted to fire on a civilian board from the Stinger portable anti-aircraft missile system (MANPADS). “In order to steal and transfer foreign MANPADS abroad, representatives of the country’s special services gave the aggressor [relevant] task of their intelligence group. “Details: According to the SBU, the sabotage and intelligence group included two dual citizens and a locally recruited accomplice. Their operations were coordinated by Russian citizen Alexander Tuterev, an employee of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces under the pseudonym “Marine,” Dekhtyarenko said, Tuterev is wanted in Ukraine for his role in organizing a series of terrorist attacks in the Odessa region, according to the SBU. In order to gain trust, they passed on to the Ukrainian side accurate information about the positions and maneuvers of the Kadyrev units, and the agents were allegedly tasked with using these contacts to obtain illegal foreign production of MADPAD and transfer it to Russia. The SBU says it has detained all members of the sabotage and intelligence involved a group has been issued. The investigation continues.
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