A GROUP OF RUSSIA-GUIDED VANDALS WAS CAUGHT BY SBU IN CHERNIHIV

Ukraine's security service (the SBU) employees detained a Russia guided group, whose goal was to provoke interetnic conflicts in Ukraine through acts of vandalism. 

This was reported by the SBU press center. "Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine in cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office have detained an organized group in Chernihiv, which commissioned by Russian special services committed crimes aimed at fueling ethnic hatred in Ukraine."

As it is noted, gang members were involved in carrying out a series of acts of vandalism against objects of Polish and Jewish cultural heritage in the Sumy and Volyn regions. In particular, on the night of December 25-29, 2017, in the village of Melnyky, Shatsky District, Volhynia, perpetrators vandalized crosses on a mass grave of Polish border guards who died in September 1939 in battles with the Red Army.

During the searches in houses of the group participants, the law enforcers revealed eight TNT slabs, five PGN-5 grenades, cold weapons, anti-Ukrainian symbols and other materials related to terrorist activities.

Criminal proceedings were opened against the group members under the part 3 of Art. 110, part 1 of Art. 111 and Part 1 of Art. 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Recall, it's not the first incident, when a Russia-guided group is caught on commiting an interethnic provocations in Ukraine's regions. Thus, on February, a group of residents of Poland, that are closely related to Russian secret services, committed a series of arson attacks in the office of the Association of Hungarian Culture of Zakarpattia near the Consulate General of Hungary in Uzhgorod.