Intelligence service: In Ukraine, agents were detained who tried to blow up strategic railway line

The Security Service of Ukraine reported the detention of saboteurs who tried to blow up the railway line in the Poltava region.

“As a result of a special operation in the Poltava region” on hot “, two FSB agents were detained. Attackers tried to blow up a section of the railway line connecting the central and eastern regions of Ukraine,” the SBU said in telegram.

It is noted that for sabotage they laid a home -made explosive device near the path and power supply system of rolling stock.

“In the future, the attackers planned to bring explosives into effect using the remote control,” the report said.

The SBU noted that the defendants did not manage to do this, since they were detained by the employees of the department right at the scene.

it is emphasized that in the case of a detachment, they hoped to violate the logistics paths of supplying weapons, ammunition and fuel for the Armed Forces.

“The detainees took mobile phones from which they coordinated criminal acts with their Russian curator – a personnel employee of the 5th Service of the FSB. His personality was already established by the security service. It was he who set the task to make a diversion on the railway during massive air attacks by Rashistov on the objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine on March 21-22 of this year, ”the message says.