A new dark attack tactic on Ukraineorganized by Russian intelligence officers, he wants young former recruits to become unintentionally, suicide bombersaccording to the SBU security service.
As SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtiarenko states today (30.06.2025) a Guardian report, The target of this particular tactic with suicide bombers in Ukraine are mainly western Ukrainian areas, far from the front.
Russia’s sabotage campaign in Ukraine It started last spring, says Dekhtiarenko. Initially, it included incendiary attacks on military vehicles, recruitment offices and post office.
To adolescents offered money through a Telegram by the ‘curators’ to carry out the attacks, Using various ways either to entice the recruits or intimidate them and trap them.
Then The perpetrators must take videos with the attack and send the registration as proof that the shipment was executed. The videos have always come up with a Telegram channels friendly, as supposed evidence of dissatisfaction within Ukraine, triggering real social tensions for issues such as recruitment that they have burst during Russia’s war against the country.
These Attacks are part of a secret shadow war, raging alongside the conflict in the front line. Russia is also carrying out incendiary attacks and sabotage attacks on European countries, according to many Western intelligence services, and it is believed that Ukrainian services are behind a number of incendiary attacks on recruitment offices in Russia at the beginning of the war.
Russia’s bombing campaign in Ukraine is based on interviews in prison with the perpetrators, who are currently in custody and awaiting their trial.
SBU believes that Russians recruit Ukrainian networks, with a person constructing the bomb and leaving it to an agreed point. Then Someone else picks it up, without knowing what it is. Thus, Russian curators can cause explosions inside Ukraine, without having to step foot in the country.
SBU reports that since early 2024 it has arrested more than 700 people for sabotage, arson or terrorism. Many are unemployed or need money to satisfy their addictions, but about a quarter of them are teenagers, with the youngest to date being an 11 -year -old girl from the Odessa area.
“In some cases, agents not only place the bomb, but unconsciously take on the role of suicide bomber. The Russians are shaking their own agents; this becomes a common practice, “Dehtiarenko said.
So far, more than twelve attacks have been reported in which the perpetrator was injured or killed, according to a source by the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities.