The accusation occurs in the midst of an increase in specific attacks against Ukrainian officials and public figures.
Ukraine has arrested and accused a man accused of murders and exploiting buildings on orders from Russia.
The Office of the Attorney General of Ukraine said Tuesday in a statement that the suspect is accused of killing a Ukrainian soldier and planning the murder of the officials.
The arrest occurs in the middle of an apparent uprising in selected attacks against Ukrainian officials and public figures, including a local legislator who was killed by a car bomb on Friday in the city of Dnipro.
The Office of the Attorney General said that, according to the orders of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB), the 56 -year -old man of the Crimean Peninsula, according to the reports, a persistent criminal for many years, shot a Ukrainian soldier dead in March 2024.
Prosecutors have also accused the suspect of planting an explosive under the Vyacheslav Zadoranko car. However, Kharkiv official saw the bomb, “saving his own life,” they said in the statement.
The suspect was also responsible for killing the head of the Jharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov, for a $ 50,000 reward.
He also planted and triggered explosives in strategically important buildings in the northeast city of Jharkiv, the statement added.
Russia and Ukraine have attacked others officials in murder plots since Moscow invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian counterintelligence researchers said that last May he had frustrated a Russian plot to kill President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as the heads of the Ukraine Military Intelligence Agency and the SBU security service.
Zelenskyy has said that there were numerous attempts to kill him since the beginning of the war with Russia, which has now extended to a fourth year.
The FSB did not comment on kyiv's claims with respect to the suspect.
