Operators and sympathizers
Kiev has created a network within Russia of its agents sabotaging Russian facilities. The group may consist of Ukrainian agents and Ukrainian sympathizers. In this respect Wrote The website of the American television channel CNN referred to a report from various sources in the American intelligence.
According to one of the channel’s interlocutors, the Ukrainian side provides these agents with Ukrainian-made drones to carry out terrorist attacks. Speaking to CNN, the two American officials did not rule out that the drones provided by Washington to Kiev were used by saboteurs.
According to senior US officials, the network of agents is managed by the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to one of the sources, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set general rules for saboteurs, but does not require that every operation be coordinated with him.
Kremlin, oil refinery, residential buildings
Washington believes it was these pro-Ukrainian agents who attacked the Kremlin with drones in early May. On the afternoon of May 3, the press service of the President of Russia reported that two drones attacked the Kremlin at night. The incident was described as an attack on the head of state in Moscow. As one of CNN’s US intelligence sources hinted, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kirill Budanov, has consistently proposed some of the most daring plans for operations against Russia and values symbolic action.
The next day, in the south of Russia, two oil refineries (refinery) caught fire, allegedly due to drone attacks: we are talking about the Ilyinsky refinery in the Krasnodar Territory and the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in the Rostov region. At the same time, Zelensky, at the end of February, “offered to attack the places where Russian troops are stationed in the Rostov region of Russia,” as they wrote on the channel’s website, citing the report of American electronic intelligence. The help of drones, as Ukraine does not have weapons that can cover such a great distance.
On May 30, two drones crashed into residential buildings in Moscow: one crashed into a building on Profsoyuznaya Street, the second on Atlasova Street in New Moscow. In the first case, the drone touched the upper floors, in the second case the facade of the house was damaged.
The sources of the TV channel believe that all these attacks may also be related to the Ukrainian intelligence network. Moreover, it is likely that the drones were launched directly from the territory of Russia, and not from Ukraine.
cross border smuggling
If so, it is not known for certain how Ukraine smuggled drones to Russia. According to the channel’s two intelligence sources, Kiev has created smuggling routes to Russia through which components of Ukrainian-made drones can be sent and then assembled inside the country.
According to the channel’s source at European intelligence, the Russia-Ukraine border is quite wide and difficult to control, making it attractive to Ukrainian smugglers. They had been carrying cargo during their confrontation with the Russian authorities for the past 10 years. “You also have to consider that this is the periphery of Russia. Survival is everyone’s problem, so money works wonders, ”said the source.
In response to a request from CNN for comment on the network of agents, Vasily Malyuk, spokesman for the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, suggested that mysterious explosions and drone attacks in Russia will continue.