SBU announces liquidation of interregional network of “pro-Russian Internet agitators”

MOSCOW, January 20 – RIA Novosti. Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) stated On Friday, about the elimination of a network of pro-Russian Internet agitators from various parts of the country.

“The Security Service neutralized the interregional network of pro-Kremlin Internet agitators during the investigation and operational actions in the Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Lviv, Nikolaev and Cherkasy regions,” the Ministry’s Telegram channel said. In the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, a man and a woman who supported the region’s entry into the Russian Federation were detained in personal correspondence urging acquaintances who had moved to Lviv to return to Zaporozhye. .

According to the news of the agency, two suspects were searched for distributing “pro-Russian records” on social media pages in Lviv and Cherkasy regions. The head of a local public organization was also detained in the Nikolaev region, with the department not reporting on his pro-Russian views, but allegedly trying to “undermine the domestic political order”. The situation in Southern Ukraine”.

Also, according to the SBU, four residents of the Dnipropetrovsk region are accused of discrediting Ukrainian troops and supporting the Russian Federation, which they expressed in comments on the Internet. The department does not provide evidence of the citizens’ connection with each other, the names of the detainees are not published.

Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin described his goal as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime.” For this, according to him, it is planned to “disarm and demilitarize Ukraine” so that all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass are brought to justice.