The enemy DRG, which was preparing this terrible provocation, was detained.

Russia wanted to shoot down a passenger plane and blame Ukraine / Illustration REUTERS

The Security Service of Ukraine neutralized an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group that planned to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus and blame Ukraine for it.

According to SBU speaker Artem Dekhtyarenko, the SBU carried out a multi-stage special operation, during which it neutralized a deeply covert sabotage and reconnaissance group of the enemy.play video

According to him, agents of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces were preparing a terrorist attack – they planned to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus.

“The invaders intended to baselessly accuse Ukraine and our partners of attacking the aircraft. To commit a provocation, the attackers wanted to fire at a civilian aircraft from the Stinger man-portable air defense system (MANPADS). In order to steal and covertly take a foreign MANPADS abroad, representatives of the country’s the aggressor gave the corresponding task to their undercover group,” Dekhtyarenko said.

The enemy DRG included two people with dual citizenship and an accomplice they had recruited. Their activities were coordinated by Russian Alexander Tyuterev, who is a staff member of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and has the call sign “Marine”.

It has been established that earlier he participated in organizing a series of terrorist attacks in the Odessa region, for which he is wanted.

According to the SBU, on the instructions of Tyuterev, enemy agents tried to establish contacts with representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the guise of patriotic volunteers.

In order to form a “trusting” relationship, they provided the Ukrainian military with reliable information regarding the positions and movement of the occupation units of the so-called “Kadyrovtsy.”

In the future, Russian agents planned to use their contacts to illegally obtain foreign MANPADS and transfer them to the aggressor country.

During the special operation, the SBU officers detained all members of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of invaders.

Now investigative and operational actions are underway to establish all the circumstances of the exposed crime and bring its organizers to justice.

“Simultaneously with the exposure of these criminal plans, the SBU exposed facts that testify to a significant level of degradation of the intelligence services of the Russian Federation. Among other things, it was possible to establish that the Morpekh lied to its leadership about successes in Ukraine and gave the task of falsifying a terrorist attack in the rear of Ukraine, controlled by it. In particular, they were preparing staged photo and video materials about the alleged “attack on a checkpoint by the forces of the Troops,” the SBU speaker added.

(C)UNIAN 2022