The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), jointly with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), has thwarted another attempt by Russian special services to carry out a terrorist attack in Odesa.
That is according to the SBU press service, Ukrinform reports.
"The preventive operation resulted in the detention of smugglers who, acting on orders from the FSB, were supposed to deliver weapons to the port city, including an attack UAV with fiber-optic guidance carrying explosives," the SBU said.
According to the agency, the operation was conducted with the assistance of Ukrainian Navy Commander Oleksiy Neizhpapa.
The investigation established that the suspects hid the weapons among a wholesale shipment of tobacco products illegally transported across the Black Sea from Russian-occupied Abkhazia, Georgia.
