SBU: Kharkiv resident passes scooter with explosives to military under guise of volunteer - photo

On June 20, a 19-year-old local resident was detained in Kharkiv as a suspect in a terrorist attack, having handed over a mined scooter to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as "volunteer aid." This was reported by Security Service of Ukraine and National Police .

On the same day, Russian special services activated an improvised explosive device (IED) hidden in the trunk of a scooter while two soldiers were nearby.

One of the soldiers, 29 years old, died on the spot. Another, 26, was hospitalized with serious injuries.

The explosion took place near a cafe in one of the parks of Kharkiv's Industrial District, where the enemy lured the soldiers under the guise of handing them a "volunteer" scooter.

According to the investigation, to prepare the crime, the aggressor recruited a 19-year-old Kharkiv resident whom he found on Telegram job search channels.

After being recruited, she received detailed instructions from her supervisor to make an IED at home. She bought household chemicals, a battery, wires and two telephones for remote detonation.

The suspect brought the ready-made explosives to the scooter parking lot and hid the IED in its trunk. After the explosion, law enforcement officers found out that the power of this IED was about 1 kg in TNT equivalent. The body was metal, with numerous fragments.

Russian special services disguised a camera at the site of a planned terrorist attack, using it to track the arrival of the military.

The suspect tried to "lay low" but was detained by law enforcement a few hours after the explosion.

During the search, unused components of an explosive device and a phone with evidence of working for the enemy were seized from her.

SBU investigators served the detainee with a notice of suspicion under the article on a terrorist attack that resulted in the death of a person. The woman was arrested and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

MP Mykhailo Sokolov published video 18+ of the moment of the explosion.

• Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the SBU has opened almost 4000 criminal proceedings on high treason and more than 9500 on collaboration and aiding the aggressor state.