UNIAN: SBU - Blast near Espresso TV organized by Russian intelligence operative - Apr. 05, 2018

UNIAN: SBU – Blast near Espresso TV organized by Russian intelligence operative

By UNIAN.

Published April 5, 2018 at 1:58 pm

A police officer examines the scene after an explosion in which Ukrainian member of parliament Ihor Mosiychuk was wounded and his bodyguard killed in Kyiv late on Oct. 25. Police said a bomb had been placed on a motorcycle (the burnt wreckage of which can be seen next to the car) and that Mosiychuk was targeted as he came out of the television channel. The bomb attack is the fourth in Kyiv in just over a year: In July 2016, Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car bomb as he drove to work. Colonel Maksym Shapoval, an intelligence officer with Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, was blown up in his car on June 27 of this year and, on Sept. 8, Ali Timayev, an ex-militant with Georgian and Chechen connections, was killed by a car bomb.

Photo by AFP

First Deputy Head of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Viktor Kononenko has said the attempt on Ukrainian MP Ihor Mosiychuk was coordinated by an operative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.

“The GRU operative and his associates used a garage [in Kyiv] to prepare a terrorist attack against Mosiychuk. Weapons and explosives were found there. One of the attackers has been detained. Others were put on a wanted list and indicted in absentia. There may be other accomplices,” Kononenko told a briefing in Kyiv April 5.