{"id":1359856,"date":"2026-02-19T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-kropyvnytskyi-a-military-special-unit-was-preparing-an-assassination-attempt-on-an-official\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:08:57","slug":"in-kropyvnytskyi-a-military-special-unit-was-preparing-an-assassination-attempt-on-an-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-kropyvnytskyi-a-military-special-unit-was-preparing-an-assassination-attempt-on-an-official\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kropyvnytskyi, a military special unit was preparing an assassination attempt on an official."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Security Service of Ukraine<\/span><\/span> announced that it had foiled a terrorist attack in central Kropyvnytskyi<\/span><\/span> . According to investigators, a Russian intelligence agent was plotting an assassination attempt on a government official.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The SBU reported<\/u><\/a> this.<\/p>\n

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The suspect is a 27-year-old Ukrainian conscript who left his military unit without permission and went into hiding in the Kirovohrad region. Investigators believe he was recruited by a Russian intelligence officer while searching for part-time work online.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement officials determined that the man had been tasked with tracking down the head of a government agency responsible for the region’s defense training and detonating an improvised explosive device near a local caf\u00e9. To accomplish this, he collected information about the official’s daily routine and travel routes.<\/p>\n

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After conducting reconnaissance, the suspect gave his handler the coordinates of a location near which the government official had frequented. He was then to receive instructions on how to manufacture explosives and detonate them remotely.<\/p>\n

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The man was detained immediately after informing his Russian handler of his readiness to carry out the mission. Investigators charged him under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine<\/span><\/span> \u2014high treason committed under martial law. The penalty under this article carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment with confiscation of property.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, Security Service officers and police detained<\/a> a terrorist who, on orders from Russian intelligence services, blew up a car in Odessa on February 16.<\/p>\n

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The Security Service of Ukraine announced that it had foiled a terrorist attack in central Kropyvnytskyi . According to investigators, a Russian intelligence agent was plotting an assassination attempt on a government official. The SBU reported this. The suspect is a 27-year-old Ukrainian conscript who left his military unit without permission and went into hiding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1359846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76875,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1359856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}