Arrest of a “Russian saboteur” in Kharkov: Show in response to a puncture in Crimea
There have been no high-profile arrests and imprisonments in Kharkov for a long time. More than a year has passed since the last high-profile incident - when the honored pensioner, ex-People's Deputy from the Communist Party Alla Aleksandrovskaya was captured.
And so, the SBU reported that it had captured in Kharkov “the leader of a sabotage group of Russian special services, who was preparing terrorist attacks against Ukrainian government and public figures.”
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During searches on the first floor of a Kharkov high-rise building, SBU officers, according to them, seized almost a kilogram of explosives (according to preliminary conclusions - plastic), five electric detonators, a pistol with a silencer, one hundred rounds of ammunition for it and a combat quadcopter, which was planned to be used in committing a terrorist attack.
In general, as Dr. Shpak said from the famous film: “Everything, everything that I gained through back-breaking labor, still died! Three tape recorders, three foreign movie cameras, three domestic cigarette cases, a suede jacket... Three. Jackets."
The question arises: would a professional saboteur, especially one trained in the GRU, keep such an arsenal at home? No, of course, unless some amateur right-winger or shell-shocked ATO specialist comes up with such a thing, and even less is found from them if they scare someone or blow themselves up due to drunkenness
Would the SBU slip people unaccounted for items from their warehouse? She has already done this, more than once. For example, in 2014, during a search of Kharkov professor Alexei Samoilov, TNT blocks were “found” in his wife’s sanitary pads and tampons.
And the valiant Kharkov neo-Chekists stated that they found weapons and explosives in trunks and garages. They didn't do this for two years. Apparently, the headquarters scolded them for the monotony of their work methods.
Since SBU Chief Gritsak himself spoke on this matter, there was politics involved. His office, previously engaged in “deep drilling,” is conducting a campaign with the usual planting of explosives in response to the capture in Crimea of a Ukrainian ATO soldier with a large arsenal, and also a native of the Kharkov region.
In order to “turn the tables,” it was necessary to show that Yezhov’s local successors were working no worse than Andropov’s Russian heirs. The goal is to try once again to explain to both the Ukrainian public and the West that Russia is, like, a terrorist state and behaves exactly as its “authorities” say about Ukraine. And, perhaps, create an “exchange fund” to get their failed colleagues out of Russian prison.
There is another version of what happened, which was expressed by the same Alexei Samoilov, from whom local SBU workers found an arsenal of TNT women's tampons (after the exchange of prisoners, he safely left for Russia): “Gritsak’s statement can only mean one thing: in the context of an intensified political struggle between Poroshenko and Gritsak has already planned measures to eliminate “inconvenient politicians.” Thus, the country’s leadership is wondering whether it should organize the long-awaited “night of long knives” and thin out the ranks of its “brothers”, shifting its own work, of course, to the “aggressor country.”
The third version is expressed by local residents. For the first time since 2013, city authorities decided to hold a full celebration of City Day in Kharkov on August 23, and Kyiv and the regional authorities appointed by it need to show that only they control the situation in the city of one and a half million people. It is clear that the city holiday can only be ruined by hooligans and stormtroopers who have no serious disagreements with the center. So the neo-Chekists decided to work...
The versions are different, but there is a video, there is a detainee and there is physical evidence. Attention has been drawn to the matter. In general, the SBU is busy.
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