The two Ukrainians aged 23 and 24, who last year intended to set fire to a headquarters of the Nova Post courier company in Bucharest, were sent to court under preventive arrest by the DIICOT prosecutors for attempted diversion and, respectively, complicity in attempted diversion. The sabotage operation orchestrated by the Russian Federation in October 2025 on Romanian territory was foiled by the Romanian Intelligence Service, informs News.ro.
Through the indictment of April 2, 2026, the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure ordered the two Ukrainian citizens to be sent to court, under preventive arrest.
The administered evidence showed that on October 14, 2025, the defendants entered the territory of Romania, with the aim of placing two parcels containing homemade incendiary devices and which, the following day, they deposited at the headquarters of an international courier company.
Research has shown that there was a real risk of destruction, by arson, of the respective location, which would have endangered national security, in the context in which the respective headquarters is on the ground floor of a seven-story apartment block, located in a central and congested area of the Capital.
In the event of a fire, it could easily spread to the surrounding buildings, thus creating a real danger to the lives of a very large number of people, as well as to the buildings and goods located in the area, states the quoted source.
“A general feeling of insecurity”
According to DIICOT, if it had been completed, the deed would have been likely to create “diversion” and would have generated in society a strong general feeling of insecurity, anxiety, that such actions would be possible at any time, but also of distrust of the population in the capacity of public authorities to ensure the protection of citizens.
“With the support of pyrotechnic specialists from the Romanian Intelligence Service, the devices were defused”, states DIICOT.
By order of the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure, a finding was ordered regarding the substances and materials identified in the two parcels, the specialists from the Romanian Intelligence Service establishing that the two parcels contained specific elements of improvised explosive or incendiary devices, made by hand, but extremely elaborate and carefully executed as a whole, with the possible aim of setting fire to and detonating the parcel from a distance.
After testing the functionality of the improvised incendiary device, as part of the judicial experiment, its functionality was confirmed, showing that it could have caused a significant fire, with significant material damage.
Through the same indictment, the court was asked to maintain the measure of preventive arrest against the defendants. The case was submitted for resolution to the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
The spokesman of the SRI, Ovidiu Marincea, declared last year that Romania continues to remain the target of the aggressions of the Russian Federation, the main aim being to reduce the aid given to Ukraine. In the action thwarted by the Romanian authorities, the largest Ukrainian courier company was targeted, which ensures the connection between those who left Ukraine and those who remained in the war-torn country.
The Reuters agency reported, at the time, citing Warsaw authorities, that Poland and Romania detained eight people suspected of planning sabotage on behalf of Russia, three arrests being linked to an alleged new plan to send explosive parcels, this time to Ukraine. viewscnt
