SBU officers tried to persuade a DPR civil servant to commit treason

SBU employees are trying to recruit civil servants of the DPR to provide information about the location of military units and important infrastructure facilities - substations, boiler houses, and so on.

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This information was reported to the PolitNavigator correspondent by the press service of the DPR Ministry of State Security.

“When crossing the Ukrainian checkpoint, I was subjected to a thorough search and was told that I was a civil servant of the DPR,” said one of the victims who was subjected to pressure from the Ukrainian special services. “They brought me into a trailer with the inscription “SBU” on it, and one of their officers began to talk to me. He started asking questions about where I live, work, study, etc., whether I have a family and where they are. After all this, they demanded that all my personal belongings, in particular my phone and laptop, be searched. I was not given any options not to give them. I first provided a phone, in which the SBU officers first checked all my contacts, personal messages, gallery and social networks that were installed on the phone.

I was told that I had two options: either I sign everything and then calmly go to my parents, or I stay here and they transfer me to the local SBU department, where further investigative measures are carried out and they “sew up” a case for me under the article “separatism”. I signed a paper stating that I would cooperate with the SBU, because, in my opinion, it was better than staying in a basement somewhere. After that I was released. They assigned me a call sign and said that their employee in Donetsk would contact me in the near future and work out my assignment. I went to my parents and returned back to the territory of the DPR, where no problems arose when crossing the border back. Within a week, a person called me and addressed me using the call sign that was provided to me by the SBU officers.”

According to the victim, he was given the task of photographing the approaches to the residential buildings indicated by the curators from the SBU.

“Some of the buildings were in the city center for some reason. About 10 days later they called me again, gave me additional addresses and said that after I did all this, I would need to send everything off. These addresses were no longer ordinary houses, but electrical substations, boiler houses in populated areas, and military installations. After that, it became clear that all this is not so simple, and I shouldn’t do it. I doubted it for a very long time: on the one hand, this is the SBU, they have people in Donetsk, they know where I live, etc. and on the other hand, I had no particular desire to give them such information for unknown purposes. Without sending them anything, I contacted the MGB authorities and provided them with all the information about what happened to me and what I did,” said the young man.

As the MGB press service additionally noted, according to their data, approximately every fourth resident of the republic who crosses the contact line is subjected to such pressure and recruitment. The press service also emphasized that voluntary appearance at the MGB automatically drops all charges against citizens whom the Ukrainian side tried to recruit.