The saboteur, who was detained on the territory of Belarus after the attack on the Russian A-50 military plane near Minsk and introduced himself as Nikolai Shvets, said that he acted on the orders of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and entered the country. country via Russia. The related video was published by the agency BelTA On Telegram channel.
“Shvets Nikolai Vladimirovich, 1993 [рождения], [гражданство -] I went to Russia with a Ukrainian, Russian passport, I came here from there,” he said.
According to Shvets, he used two drones during an attempted sabotage at Machulishchi airport on February 26.
“I worked with the SBU, [город] Kyiv,” said the prisoner.
Mikhail Podolyak, chief adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Twitter that the attack on the Russian A-50 early-warning aircraft was carried out on the Belarusian airbase near Minsk. loyalty “local partisans”.