{"id":1442746,"date":"2026-09-22T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/an-attempt-on-a-russian-opposition-figure-who-fought-for-ukraine-was-foiled-in-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:35:00","slug":"an-attempt-on-a-russian-opposition-figure-who-fought-for-ukraine-was-foiled-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/an-attempt-on-a-russian-opposition-figure-who-fought-for-ukraine-was-foiled-in-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"An attempt on a Russian opposition figure who fought for Ukraine was foiled in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Security Service of Ukraine has detained an FSB agent in Kyiv who, according to investigators, was preparing to assassinate a Russian opposition figure. The woman was supposed to shoot the activist near one of the capital&#8217;s gyms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/novyny\/sbu-zatrymala-u-kyievi-kilerku-fsb-yaka-hotuvala-zamakh-na-lidera-odniiei-iz-ukrainskykh-hromadskykh-orhanizatsii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Security Service of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to the SBU, Russian special services planned the assassination of an opposition figure who heads an all-Ukrainian public organization and works as a kickboxing coach. Since 2022, the man has been fighting on the side of Ukraine &#8211; first in the Kyiv region, and later in the eastern direction. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1442725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46.jpeg 853w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.46-433x650.jpeg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The investigation established that the agent was supposed to set up an ambush near the gym and shoot the man with a combat pistol.<\/p>\n<p> SBU officers detained a woman near a sports complex while she was surveying the area and looking for a position for a future attack.<\/p>\n<p> According to the investigation, the FSB task was carried out by an unemployed resident of temporarily occupied Melitopol. Russian special services recruited her in exchange for a promise to &#8220;close&#8221; the case of illegal drug possession.<\/p>\n<p> Before being sent to the territory controlled by Ukraine, the woman underwent training in occupied Melitopol. She was taught conspiracy, terrain orientation, and firearms shooting.<\/p>\n<p> After training, the agent traveled through Belarus to Zhytomyr, and from there to Kyiv. In the capital, she regularly changed hotels and used additional measures of concealment.<\/p>\n<p> Later, a curator from Russia gave her the coordinates of a cache in a forest park area of Kyiv. There, the woman took the pistol and ammunition that she was going to use for the murder. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1442722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-22-14.14.56-650x433.jpeg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> During a search of the hotel room, SBU officers found a weapon and a smartphone through which the agent had been communicating with the Russian curator. The SBU said it had already identified him.<\/p>\n<p> Investigators informed the detainee of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine &#8211; high treason under martial law.<\/p>\n<p> The court remanded the woman in custody without bail. 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According to the SBU, Russian special services planned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1442719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1442746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442746","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}