{"id":28010,"date":"2026-08-26T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=28010"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:23:38","slug":"zamah-kerivnyka-oboronpidpryiemstva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/suspilstvo\/zamah-kerivnyka-oboronpidpryiemstva\/","title":{"rendered":"The SBU and the National Police foiled an assassination attempt on the head of a defence company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">The SBU and the National Police have foiled an assassination attempt which, according to the investigation, was organised by the FSB against the head of a defence company in the Kyiv region. The explosives planted in the official\u2019s car were defused before they could be detonated. The perpetrator was arrested in Poland whilst attempting to travel to Russia via Belarus; Ukraine has already requested his extradition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The target was the head of a defence company in the Kyiv region.<\/li>\n<li>The plan was to detonate the device under the driver\u2019s seat of the car.<\/li>\n<li>The bomb contained 1 kg of hexogen, equivalent to approximately 2 kg of TNT.<\/li>\n<li>Investigators have identified the perpetrator as a pensioner who was recruited via his son in Russia.<\/li>\n<li>The suspect was arrested in Poland, and Ukraine has submitted an extradition request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Explosives were found in the car before it was blown up<\/h2>\n<p>According to the SBU, the plan was to detonate a homemade explosive device under the driver\u2019s seat of the official\u2019s car. The SBU\u2019s counter-intelligence unit, in conjunction with the National Police, detected and defused it before it could be activated.<\/p>\n<p>The device contained 1 kg of hexogen, which is equivalent to approximately 2 kg of TNT.<\/p>\n<h2>The investigation described the plan for carrying out a remote detonation<\/h2>\n<p>The perpetrator has been identified as a 63-year-old pensioner from the Luhansk region. According to the investigation, the FSB recruited him through his son, who lives in Russia. The man retrieved the components from a hiding place, assembled the bomb and attached it to a car.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby, he concealed a mobile phone with a power bank. The device was streaming video live so that the Russian side could monitor the car and remotely detonate the explosives.<\/p>\n<h2>Ukraine has requested the extradition of a man detained in Poland<\/h2>\n<p>After planting the explosives, the suspect left Ukraine and, according to the police, was planning to enter Russia via Belarus. He was arrested in Poland whilst attempting to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has submitted an extradition request to the Polish authorities. The suspect has been informed of the charges against him.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SBU and the National Police foiled an assassination attempt on the head of a defence company in the Kyiv region and defused a bomb containing one kilogramme of hexogen.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433355,"featured_media":28009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u0421\u0411\u0423 \u0442\u0430 \u041d\u0430\u0446\u043f\u043e\u043b \u0437\u0456\u0440\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043c\u0430\u0445 \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u0435\u0440\u0456\u0432\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0456\u0434\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0454\u043c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432\u0449\u0438\u043d\u0456 \u0439 \u0437\u043d\u0435\u0448\u043a\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u043e\u043c\u0431\u0443 \u0437 \u043a\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043e\u043c \u0433\u0435\u043a\u0441\u043e\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0443.","rank_math_title":"\u0417\u0430\u043c\u0430\u0445 \u043d\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0430\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0446\u044f \u041e\u041f\u041a: \u043f\u0456\u0434\u043e\u0437\u0440\u044e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0437\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u041f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0449\u0456","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0417\u0430\u043c\u0430\u0445","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[806778],"tags":[806775],"class_list":["post-28010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-suspilstvo","tag-806775"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28011,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions\/28011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}