OREANDA-NEWS. Agents of the Ukrainian special services, detained for intelligence and sabotage activities in three Russian regions, confessed.
Two of them, Zinovy and Ihor Koval, confessed to the recruitment by Colonel Vasyl Kovalik, a current employee of the SBU in the Ternopil region.

On his instructions, the saboteurs were supposed to photograph and collect data on strategic objects on the territory of Russia for a monetary reward.

The third detainee, Oleksandr Tsilyk, admitted that he acted at the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Kirilovets, the head of the sector - an employee of the operational group of the operational department of the special reserve of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

The man said that he was supposed to make two improvised explosive devices with a total mass of 1.5 kilograms in TNT equivalent and commit a terrorist attack. He crossed the Russian border illegally.

Over the past seven years, Russian special services have regularly detained Ukrainian saboteurs and spies. According to the Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, centers for their preparation have been deployed in Ukraine at the suggestion of "Western sponsors" in order to carry out terrorist acts in Russia in the future.