Overview
- The SSU says it detained a 37-year-old foreign national in Odesa as he prepared to shoot a high-ranking Navy officer with a pistol fitted with a silencer.
- According to investigators, he entered Ukraine as a tourist, traveled to Odesa, pulled a cached weapon using GPS coordinates from a Russian handler, and waited by the officer’s residence while posing as he fixed a bicycle.
- Prosecutors notified him of a completed attempt to commit a terrorist attack under Articles 15.2 and 258.2, and he faces up to 12 years in prison.
- In a separate operation, the SSU says an unemployed man from Poltava recruited on Telegram planted a cache in Odesa with an F‑1 grenade and a Kalashnikov for planned contract killings.
- That suspect now faces high treason under Article 111.2 and illegal weapons charges under Article 263 with a possible life sentence, while the identified FSB handler was charged in absentia and the SSU urged citizens to report suspicious recruitment.