OREANDA-NEWS Two residents of Crimea were detained who, on the instructions of Kiev, blew up a car in Sevastopol, as a result of which captain of the 1st rank Valery Trankovsky was killed, deputy chairman of the SBU, Major General Alexander Poklad, was responsible for organizing the terrorist attack, the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation reported.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the territory of the Republic of Crimea detained two Russian citizens who, on November 13, 2024, in Sevastopol, on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine, blew up a car under the control of the Chief of Staff, First Deputy commander of the Azov Naval Region of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Captain 1st rank Trankovsky Valery Nikolaevich, who was injured incompatible with life", - the message says .

It was established that the detained resident of Sevastopol, born in 1986, on the instructions of the Ukrainian special service, monitored the Russian officer in order to establish his place of residence, the vehicle used and the routes of movement. The second perpetrator of the terrorist attack, a resident of Yalta, born in 1977, assembled an explosive device from components given to him by curators through caches, installed it under the bottom of the car and remotely detonated it while the officer was following to the duty station.