Oleksandr Gurko, an officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was arrested in absentia on charges of recruiting perpetrators of international terrorist acts in a special military operation zone. It has been reported TASS pursuant to court decision.
“It was decided to bring Oleksandr Gurko as a defendant and to be charged with a crime in accordance with Art. 361 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, inciting, recruiting, arming a person for the purpose of committing an act of international terrorism – making an explosion outside the Russian Federation <…> In the period from February 24 to May 9, 2022,” the document states.
It was stated that Gurko will be detained for two months from the moment he is extradited to the Russian Federation. The officer appears in the case of Ukrainian citizen Pavel Zaporozhets, who was accused of attempting to organize a terrorist attack in Kherson on May 9.
April 3 Moscow Basmanny Court in absentia arrested Russian Denis Kapustin, founder and leader of the Russian Volunteer Union, allegedly the organizer of the attack on villages in the Bryansk region and the assassination attempt on the head of the Tsargrad group of companies, Konstantin Malofeev.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.