The case involves a Zhytomyr resident who came to Kyiv to earn money and worked as a car mechanic in a local auto repair shop. The investigation claims that he poured a flammable liquid on the door of the post office building on Lesnoy Prospekt and set it on fire.
According to law enforcement officials, his friend met the girl on a social network the day before. Subsequently, a pseudo-law enforcement officer called him on the phone and said that the girl was supposedly working for the aggressor country of the Russian Federation and for this she had already been “detained” by the Security Service of Ukraine. The interlocutor threatened him with criminal liability for communicating with her, but in order to avoid punishment, the man was offered to set fire to the post office. An “accomplice” of the “detainee” allegedly worked there.
The defendant volunteered to help his friend and, according to the prosecutor’s office, bought gasoline, doused the door of the post office and set them on fire, believing that in this way he was helping the SBU.
The detainee was informed of suspicion of deliberate destruction or damage to property by arson (Part 2 of Article 194 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He could face up to 10 years in prison.
