Operatives of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have detained a saboteur who acted in favor of the so-called "DPR" terrorist organization in Pokrovskiy district of Donetsk region, catching the man in the act of planting an explosive at a power infrastructure facility, the SBU's press service reports.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said investigators are operating under a theory that saboteurs may have used a detonator to trigger a massive explosion and fire at a munitions depot in central Ukraine this week, according to RFE/RL.
Amid hybrid war, every failure or crime by Ukrainian officials becomes a fertile ground for supporters of the "Russian world" and "Novorossia" who appeal to social justice when recruiting new assets to expand their intelligence gathering and subversive efforts, according to TSN Tyzhden weekly news digest.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says that recent price hikes on the liquified petroleum gas (LPG) market in Ukraine is sabotage and instructed respective ministries, the national anti-trust agency, the State Fiscal Service and other government agencies to propose solutions and change the situation by September 15, according to the Ukrainian government' press service.