The SBU detained Russian agents who were burning relay cabinets in Kyiv region and Volyn

The main targets of the enemy were the vehicles of the Defense Forces and relay cabinets of Ukrzaliznytsia.

The Russians remotely recruited a 22-year-old local military contractor to commit arson in the capital region.

He involved two unemployed acquaintances in subversive activities, who hoped for quick earnings in exchange for cooperation with the Russians.

It was established that the attackers set fire to two relay cabinets on the railway lines that regulate the movement of trains through the Kyiv region.

To commit the crimes, the perpetrators purchased a highly flammable mixture and a screwdriver, which they used to break the doors of power plants, and then doused their technological parts with gasoline.

Two more criminals were detained in Volyn when they set fire to an official car of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was undergoing maintenance after completing tasks at the front.

The detainees were an 18-year-old student of the local vocational school and his 15-year-old accomplice.

During the searches, mobile phones with evidence of correspondence with the Russians and the clothes in which they committed the arson were seized from the suspects.

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Perpetrators face from 10 years in prison to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

As Ukrinform reported, in 2024, the National Police recorded more than 340 cases of setting fire to military vehicles.

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