Ukraine detained teenagers suspected of preparing Russia's orders. As they had been recruited
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Ukrainian authorities announced on Wednesday that they have detained nine people, including five teenagers, under the suspicion that they would have prepared attacks on behalf of Russian security services, AFP reports.
Kiev claims that he had a growing number of sabotage plots that Ukrainian children were planned at the orders of Moscow.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that the operation was carried out in four regions and nine people were detained, of which five ages 14-15 years.
According to SBU, some of the suspects planned to plant explosive near residential buildings or railway lines, including improvised explosive devices. The Ukrainian Security Service said that the agents confiscated over 30 kilograms of explosives.
“The problem of bringing the minor defendants before the justice is being resolved,” SBU said in the statement sent on Wednesday.
Suspects, SBU claims, had been recruited on Telegram with the promise of financial rewards.
In March, SBU accused Russia of throwing two teenagers into the air in a similar plot
SBU accused the Russian services of blowing up two teenage boys they had recruited to make bombs and plant near a railway station in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine.
A Russian agent had rented for the two teenagers-aged 15 and 17, respectively-an apartment in a tall building near the respective station, said SBU in March, according to The Kyiv Independent.
At Russia's instructions, the two made explosives and two devices disguised in thermos.
SBU claims that they have equipped the explosives with remote detonators and were heading, it seems, to a place designated to place one of the devices when an intelligence service activated the explosives. One exploded in the possession of young people, and the other in the rented apartment, says SBU.
The 17 -year -old teenager died in the incident, and the 15 -year -old was admitted with serious injuries. In the incident were injured two passers -by – a 20 -year -old and a 23 -young woman.
If found guilty, the surviving teenager risks life imprisonment.
The Serhii Andrușcenko, Deputy Chief of SBU, had told The Kyiv Independent that the remote detonation of devices made on their own in the attacks planned by Russian services is a new tactic of the clandestine operations against Ukraine, provided they allow them to commit the attacks.
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