The FSB planned the assassination of the commander of the "Wolves Da Vinci"
This was reported by the press service of the Security Service of Ukraine.
To carry out the crime, the Russian special service recruited a resident of Dnipropetrovsk region, posing as employees of the SBU.
"Agent operations 'under a false flag' are quite a new tactic for the Russian special service," - noted the SBU.
According to case materials, during recruitment conversations, FSB representatives called themselves employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and assigned the agent tasks supposedly in the interests of the state. In this way, they involved an ATO participant from Kamianske, who sincerely believed he was helping the SBU neutralize a spotter working for the RF.
According to investigators, a woman contacted the man through one of the social networks, claiming to be an SBU officer. She reported that the online store where the defendant previously ordered medical drugs allegedly funds Russian troops. This information was used to accuse the Ukrainian of "state treason" and to announce the opening of a fictitious criminal case.
"To increase psychological pressure, FSB representatives sent the man a forged subpoena for an SBU interrogation," - the message states. After that, they offered him a "cooperation" with the Service in exchange for closing the case. For this, they sent him an application for "admission to the SBU" and ordered him to come to Kyiv.
The SBU noted that FSB curators manipulated the Ukrainian's patriotic beliefs. He was convinced that he was helping the Ukrainian special service and expressed readiness to destroy the occupiers even at the cost of his own life.
In Kyiv, the defendant was tasked with renting an apartment near the house where, according to the FSB, Filimonov lived, and to start monitoring his car. A representative of the Russian special service assured the man that the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was allegedly a "traitor" who was directing strikes on Kyiv.
After one of the missile strikes on the capital, the curator convinced the defendant that responsibility for this lay with the "object" under surveillance. The agent regularly sent photo reports to the curator, including pictures of the yard and a description of the military's movements.
Later, the defendant received coordinates of a cache on the outskirts of Kyiv, where automatic weapons were hidden. After receiving the Kalashnikov rifle, the man continued surveillance and was subsequently ordered to eliminate Filimonov.
Security operatives detained him as he was leaving the street with armed equipment. During the search, a mobile phone was seized from him, from which the defendant communicated with the FSB curator.
Filimonov thanked Head Vasyl Malyuk and the entire SBU team.
"Let me remind you: the war continues even in the rear. Do not fall for dubious 'tasks' from 'SBU agents' in messengers. The SBU does not recruit via phone, does not ask to break the law, and does not set 'strange' tasks," - he recalled.
