SSU and police detain accomplices of a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv
19 February, 2025 Detained accomplice of the terrorist attack in Mykolaiv on February 14, 2025. Photo credits: SSU The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have detained accomplices in a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv on February 14 this year, ordered by Russia.
Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the explosion. The SSU reported on this. Russian special services used a resident of the Poltava region to blow up a car with explosives near a cafe in the center of Mykolaiv.
As a result of the explosion, a woman and three soldiers were killed on the spot, and seven other people sustained injuries of varying severity.
Police forensics work in Mykolaiv. Photo credits: National Police of Ukraine
SSU CI detained the accomplices in hot pursuit. They were four underage residents of Poltava district aged 14 to 17.
The Russians recruited them via Telegram channels in search of easy money.
Detained accomplices of the terrorist attack in Mykolaiv on February 14, 2025. Photo credits: SSU
Following the instructions of Russian special services, the young men made an improvised explosive device, hid it in a backpack, and gave it to a 42-year-old resident of a neighboring village. "In exchange for a promise of quick money from Russia, the woman came to Mykolaiv to allegedly hand over a bag of money to a local resident," the SSU said.
Unaware that she was carrying a disguised explosive, she approached the parking lot of a cafe where a group of Ukrainian soldiers were standing. As soon as the woman approached them, Russian special services remotely activated the explosive device via a call to her cell phone.
Deceased servicemen of the Mine Action Center in Mykolaiv, February 14, 2025. Photo credits: Mine Action Center Facebook page
The SSU reported that the enemy had prepared in advance the elimination of its agent as an unnecessary witness to the terrorist attack.
Detention
Meanwhile, after preparing and transferring the explosives, the juvenile offenders lay low in their homes, where they were waiting for money from the invaders.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers detained them there. During the searches, cell phones with evidence of contacts with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, as well as components for the manufacture of an explosive device, were seized from them.
Policeman in Mykolaiv. Photo credits: National Police of Ukraine
Currently, four persons were served a notice of suspicion under Part 2 Article 28, Part 3 Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (terrorist act committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, which resulted in the death of people).
The perpetrators are in custody.
They face life imprisonment.