Ukraine's Security Service Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has reported the detention of a terrorist group that was preparing a terrorist attack on the delegation of the Dutch government in Kharkiv.
“During the interrogation of a participant of this terrorist group, we received clear evidence that Russian special services, which by the way trained the group members near the town of Tambov in one of the Russian FSB training camps, issued an order and provided explosives for a terrorist attack against the government delegation of the Netherlands, who planned to visit the state-run Malyshev Plant,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Nalyvaichenko noted that the above-mentioned persons are the members of the group suspected in preparation of the explosion at Stina (Wall) pub in Kharkiv, who have already been detained.
According to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, 13 people were injured in the explosion at Kharkiv’s Stina rock pub on Nov. 9.
On Monday, Nov. 17, SBU press service informed that SBU had successfully finished a special operation on neutralization of a sabotage-reconnaissance group that had operated in Kharkiv city and region and had been involved in the blast in Stina pub.
A total of 12 people were detained, including group’s leaders. It was an extremely dangerous sabotage-reconnaissance group. AK-74 machine guns and bullets for them, RGD-5 and VOG-25 grenades, detonators, kits for setting up tripwires and seven Russian-made antipersonnel mines banned by Ottawa Treaty 1997 were found and confiscated from the group members.
