Russian special services wanted to kill the brother of the head of the Office of the President Andrii Yermak, Denys, using 2.5 kg of explosives in a parcel.
The head of the SSU, Vasyl Maliuk, has told this to journalists, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
"The liquidation option was as follows: he is on the front line (at that time in Zaporizhzhia), as soon as he returns from the combat order - to work on it with an explosive device. The executor is a Kharkiv resident, an impudent, young, competent engineer, that is, someone who can professionally make an explosive device. He came to Kyiv, rented an apartment. While he was buying all the necessary components, we managed to install video and audio monitoring in the apartment. So we completely controlled the course of events. In addition, we managed to technically penetrate his phone, where we recorded many conversations, where the curators directly controlled the whole process in detail," Maliuk said.
According to him, for four nights the perpetrator was only engaged in explosives: he slept during the day, and at night he made explosives. The total weight that he "wound up" was 2.5 kg, plus the striking elements, he made the detonator himself.
A minor, 14 years old, was monitoring Denys Yermak.
"The Rusaks were in a big hurry, they had to do it until their noses bled. They planned to do it mega brazenly. For your understanding: 800 grams is enough to blow up a large jeep so that it would be "in the trash". For an ordinary car - 400 grams. And 2.5 kg - there are no walls or partitions, nothing if you blow up an explosive device in the entrance. The Russians told the perpetrator this: come, ring the doorbell, they are waiting for you, just hand over the package," added Maliuk.
According to the head of the SSU, this is a classic scheme for using "darkness". The perpetrator bought two phones, one of the phones was attached to the explosives. The russians had auditory control - if they heard that the agent approached the target and the door was opened for him, they would immediately organize an explosion. Neither the one who brought it nor the one behind the door would be alive, Maliuk said.
"The Russians wanted to carry out a terrorist attack by 3 p.m. on May 15. That day there was a meeting in Istanbul, so the enemy wanted to implement his plan before it began. It is clear that this could have affected the negotiation process, since Andrii Yermak was part of this group. We did not allow the Russians to carry out their plans," the head of the SSU emphasized.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Yermak said that he entered politics with Zelenskyy and would also leave with him.
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