A total of 7 Russian officers/agents were arrested. Most traveled under fake identity.
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SBU now announces capture of Russian secret service officers who tried to blow up car of SBU officer a couple days earlier. One of them - captured - is deputy of the Head of Ingushetia, travelling under fake Kyrgiz passport
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This is Timur Dzortov (from his social media profile). Deputy to Head of Ingushetia. Captured by SBU under a fake Kyrgyz passport. Indeed, in 2014-2016 he flew extensively within Russia using "ID of Member of Parliament"pic.twitter.com/bEjPuKMSsr
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Snapshot from air-travel database where we can see he traveled with ID of "Deputy" (likely local Ingushetia parliament, as opposed to Duma)pic.twitter.com/2nRKTxdWlI
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He appears to admit to having been tasked with special ops not only in Ukraine, but "in an EU state" (however, his words were bleeped out, as SBU says this is under current investigation with EU countries' law enforcement.
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This appears to be the next huge blunder by Russian secret services. They send a person who was deputy to a regional leader, who graduated a special school under auscpices of the President, under fake passport to organize assassinations in Ukraine...and get caught.
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This is the Russian secret service officer who blew himself up earlier this month while placing a bomb under the car of a Ukrainian military intelligence officer. He also traveled under a fake ID. SBU says he is now in hospital, and that he was coerced by GRU to do this jobpic.twitter.com/njrD00dldZ
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Indeed, in a Russian criminal records database, we find that in 2016 this person was sentenced to a jail sentence plus payment of a fine of nearly EUR 700,000 "for requesting a bribe in extremely high amount". At that time he was an officer in Russia's drug-enforcement agency.
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