The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has held three persons over an attempted arson of the Batkivschyna political party's office in Kyiv.
Head of the SBU Statehood Protection Department Viktor Kononenko has said this at a briefing, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"The SBU received intelligence information about intention of the secret services of the Russian Federation to mastermind in Ukraine conditions for large-scale mass protests. For this purpose, subversive elements, hiding in the territory of Russia from Ukrainian justice, were ordered to organize an attack with explosives and other combustive mixtures on the office of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association in Kyiv. The idea was to rile up the political environment and create a standoff between political leaders and the ruling political party," he said.
According to Kononenko, the conflict was supposed to spill over into mass protests during celebration of the Constitution Day.
The SBU press service reports that two out of the three detained persons were involved in the blockage of the Lviv - Rava Ruska automobile route in March, and another one detainee was involved in the protests in Kyiv in May.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the SBU had unearthed four individuals suspected of disseminating of anti-Ukrainian propaganda in the social media VKontakte and Odnoklassniki in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv regions.
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