Crimean resident suspected of blowing up officer's car told of SBU recruitment

A Crimean resident suspected of blowing up the car of a Russian army serviceman has said during interrogation that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) recruited him in the summer of 2023. The video was published by the FSB's Public Relations Center (PRC) on November 19.

"My task was to liquidate a high-ranking serviceman in the city of Sevastopol," the detainee said.

According to him, he planted a bomb under the bottom of the officer's car on the night of November 13. The explosive device the man activated with a remote control and hid it and the phone.

Law enforcement agencies also detained a Sevastopol resident who had been monitoring the Russian officer to establish where he lived and the vehicle he used.

"When I arrived in Sevastopol on vacation, the handler sent me a photo and the car's license plate number, and I only watched her, what time she shows up and what time she leaves," the woman said.

Later the resident of Sevastopol made sure that the car belongs to Captain 1st rank Valery Trankovsky and passed the data to the SBU.

The law enforcers earlier in the day detained two Russians who committed a terrorist attack against Trankovsky in Sevastopol.

Earlier, on November 13, a car exploded in Sevastopol on Shevchenko Street. It was noted that the cause of the explosion could be an improvised explosive device. Eyewitnesses said that they helped to extinguish the vehicle and rescue the driver from the cabin.

Later, the governor of the city Mikhail Razvozhayev said that the explosion killed a serviceman of the Russian army. A criminal case was opened over the incident.