{"id":1443087,"date":"2026-09-23T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sbu-foils-terrorist-attack-in-the-center-of-rivne-russian-agent-detained-red-handed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:03:15","slug":"sbu-foils-terrorist-attack-in-the-center-of-rivne-russian-agent-detained-red-handed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sbu-foils-terrorist-attack-in-the-center-of-rivne-russian-agent-detained-red-handed\/","title":{"rendered":"SBU foils terrorist attack in the center of Rivne: Russian agent detained “red-handed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Security Service of Ukraine has prevented a terrorist attack in the center of Rivne. According to the investigation, a Russian agent planted an improvised explosive device in a garbage can near one of the state institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

According to the special services, after planting the explosives, the suspect informed his Russian handler about it via messenger.<\/p>\n

The SBU stated that the explosion was planned to be activated remotely during rush hour to cause as many civilian casualties as possible.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers uncovered the preparation of the terrorist attack in advance and detained the agent “red-handed” when he tried to leave the scene. The improvised explosive device was seized and neutralized.<\/p>\n

According to the investigation, the detainee worked as a courier for a local delivery service. He came to the attention of Russian special services through Telegram channels looking for “easy money.”<\/p>\n

After being recruited, the man, under the guise of a delivery man, traveled around the city on a moped and photographed the outer perimeters and parking lots of government facilities.<\/p>\n

He passed the collected materials on to the Russian curator, who later sent him the coordinates of a cache containing an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n

During the search, a smartphone with intelligence images and correspondence with a representative of the Russian special services was seized from the detainee.<\/p>\n

The man was informed of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 15 and Part 2 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine \u2013 a completed attempt to commit a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

He is being held without bail. If convicted, he faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers are also considering the additional qualification of his actions as high treason.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, earlier “Pryamiy” wrote about a Russian agent in the Odessa region who was preparing to blow up an administrative building<\/a> . He was also exposed before the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

In addition, an FSB agent was detained in the Rivne region, who was preparing the murders of Ukrainian soldiers and helping the enemy launch strikes<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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The Security Service of Ukraine has prevented a terrorist attack in the center of Rivne. According to the investigation, a Russian agent planted an improvised explosive device in a garbage can near one of the state institutions. The SBU reported this. According to the special services, after planting the explosives, the suspect informed his Russian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1443082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1443087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443087","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}