© publicistjournalist.comThe head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, has pointed to his agency's involvement in the murders and assassination attempts
on a number of politicians and public figures, the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV
reported live.
In an interview with the TV channel,
Malyuk said:
In no way will we officially recognise this, but at the same time I will tell you individual details.
Malyuk said that the explosive-filled statue, which killed military officer Vladlen Tatarsky, contained 400 grams of thermobar, 800 grams of plastid was used in the attempted assassination of LPR [Luhansk People's Republic] Prosecutor General Sergey Gorenko, and former Rada MP Illia Kyva was shot dead with a 9×19 calibre pistol. Malyuk noted:
For a long time they thought a missile flew into [Gorenko's] window, 800 grams of plastic was there.
The assassination
attempt on Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin was prepared using an anti-tank mine, according to Vasyl Malyuk. He said that the writer "was left without a leg as a result."LPR Prosecutor General Sergey Gorenko was killed in a bomb explosion in Luhansk on 16 September 2022. Vladlen Tatarsky - in a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg on 2 April 2023. Zakhar Prilepin was injured in a car bombing in the Nizhny Novgorod region on 6 May the same year. Illia Kiva was killed in the Moscow region on 6 December 2023.
Earlier also, SBU head
Malyuk agreed that his "organisation" was also involved in other terrorist acts in Russia.
According to media reports, Malyuk
admitted that it was the SBU that was behind the attacks on the Crimean bridge. To damage the powerful structure, the Ukrainians disguised 14 tonnes of hexogen mixture under rolls of greenhouse film.
The head of the agency concluded:
After this operation, the top leaders of Western intelligence services said: You are the best, we take off our hats.
Meanwhile,
Russia has said that Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. The deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has called for a "death to death" response for the terrorist attack in Crocus and "ruthlessly destroy the terrorists".
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine did not speak about the tragedy in Crocus, although his words were clearly meant to dispel doubts that someone else was involved in the organisation of the terrible terrorist attack.
Comment: The interview:
RT
provides further details of the Kiev-juntas attacks on Russian infrastructure:
Ukrainian security service boasts about attacks on Russian oil refineries
In a statement on Monday, Vasily Malyuk said transport and oil infrastructure are among "the most painful points" that his agency "hits daily" amid the hostilities with Moscow.
The sites are "legitimate targets" because they "work for the Russian military industrial complex," the senior official claimed, adding that Ukrainian strikes can happen "even where they are least expected."
A series of Ukrainian drone attacks have targeted Russian oil sites since mid-January, in some cases causing disruption at the facilities.
The Financial Times claimed last week that US officials have urged Kiev to halt the strikes over concerns that they could cause shortages on the global energy market. In particular, the White House is concerned that a hike in gas prices in the US could undermine President Joe Biden's chances of reelection in November, according to the report.
The Ukrainian government has denied being pressured by the Americans. Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, branded the FT report "fictitious information" in an interview last Friday.
Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are lawful and necessary to undermine its military, he insisted, while claiming that Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are "genocidal" in intent. Nobody can "dictate to Ukraine the conditions on how to prosecute this war," Podoliak added.
The White House reiterated its policy not to encourage Ukraine to deliver strikes inside Russia when asked about the FT report by the Ukrainian branch of state-funded news outlet Voice of America.
The Russian military resumed massive long-range strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure last week after a months-long pause. Ukrainian officials said a barrage on Friday caused the most significant damage to the power grid thus far in the armed conflict.
Moscow added several Ukrainian energy facilities to the list of targets it considers legitimate in October 2022. President Vladimir Putin said at the time that the shift in military tactics was justified by the Ukrainian bombing of the Crimean Bridge earlier that month. The attack involved a powerful explosive device being smuggled inside a truck and detonated on the bridge, killing the driver and four other civilians.
This Ukrainian man complains how those paraded around Ukraine as heroes weren't fighting on the front line but were instead involved in terrorism:
See also:
US, UK and Ukraine could be behind Moscow terror attack - FSB chief
Comment: The interview:
RT provides further details of the Kiev-juntas attacks on Russian infrastructure: This Ukrainian man complains how those paraded around Ukraine as heroes weren't fighting on the front line but were instead involved in terrorism:
See also: US, UK and Ukraine could be behind Moscow terror attack - FSB chief