Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko told reporters that the Ukrainian side was planning an assassination attempt on him in March 2023, but these plans were thwarted thanks to the good work of the FSB department for the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The mayor clarified that the attackers planned to use explosives to eliminate him, and Artem Pyzin, a DPR resident recruited by the SBU’s counterintelligence service, was believed to be the perpetrator.
“It is the merit of the special services, in this case the FSB of the Russian Federation, to have stopped this problem in time … In March 2023, Pyzin received the task of observing, establishing routes … Later, following the instructions of the SBU, he was in one of the abandoned buildings and tried to assemble an explosive device, which exploded in his hands,” Prikhodko said.
According to the Mayor of Gorlovka, law enforcement is currently looking for everyone involved in this crime.
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