The armed attack on Alfa special police force of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Sloviansk of Donetsk region was committed by a Russian reconnaissance sabotage group under the command of a special forces officer from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Igor Strelkov.
On April 15 the SBU launched a criminal case regarding
the organizing by Strelkov of intended murder and actions that harm
sovereignty, territorial integrity and immunity of Ukraine, conducting
of the sabotage subversive activities, and organization of the mass
disorders in the eastern Ukraine.
As 1+1 channel’s Television News Service reported on Monday morning,
militants have killed four people in Sloviansk: two SBU officers were
shot dead at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town. A car with
civilians was shot in the street, and two people were killed.
Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said earlier that a
captain of the SBU’s Alfa special police force, Hennadiy Bilichenko, was
killed during a shootout at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town,
whereas an Alfa commander and an SBU colonel were seriously injured. An
Interior Ministry officer also sustained gunshot wounds.
“Before coming to Ukraine, Strelkov traveled to
Moscow, where he was instructed on how to work on the territory of
Ukraine. It has been established that the members of the
reconnaissance-sabotage group, consisting of 30 people under the command
of Strelkov, attacked the officers of the Security Service of Ukraine,
killing one SBU officer and injuring three of them,” one of the chiefs
of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) counter-intelligence
department, Vitaliy Naida, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
According to him, the main task of the subdivisions in Ukraine is a maximal destabilizing of the situation.
Naida said that since November 2013, the Ukrainian
counter-intelligence services have received information on Russia’s
intentions to destabilize situation in Ukraine using units of the
Russian Black Sea Fleet.
“The previous SBU leadership got these reports, but managed to ignore them,” he added.
From the start of the military intervention the Ukrainian
counter-intelligence agency stopped the work of about 40 employees of
the Russian special services, as well as others recruited by them: both
Russian and Ukrainian citizens, he said.
Naida noted that five criminal cases are being investigating under
the article “high treason”, and “espionage” and “illegal use of arms”
under the rest of the cases.
