Court sentences Russian agent who attempted to derail a Ukrzaliznytsia train to up to 15 years in prison
A Russian agent, exposed in May 2025 in the Kyiv region while attempting to derail a freight train, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
According to Ukrinform, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) stated this on its website.
According to case materials, the agent manufactured improvised devices intended to cause a train derailment on Ukrzaliznytsia tracks.
SSU officers uncovered the suspect in advance and detained him at his workplace in the Kyiv region.
The investigation established that the task was carried out by a resident of the Chernihiv region recruited by Russian military intelligence (commonly known as the GRU), who worked as an elevator repair and maintenance technician in Kyiv.
He came to the attention of Russian intelligence after posting pro-Kremlin comments in Telegram channel chats.
After recruitment, the agent received instructions from a Russian handler to carry out sabotage aimed at disrupting the logistics of Ukraine's Defense Forces.
He built the devices in his own garage, then hid them at a cemetery near the planned sabotage site.
Later, he retrieved the devices and installed them on railway tracks. SSU officers documented his actions, dismantled the devices in advance, and then detained the agent.
During searches, a smartphone used to coordinate his activities with a GRU handler was seized.
Based on SSU materials, the court found him guilty under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 2 of Article 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (sabotage committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons under martial law).
As Ukrinform reported, SSU military counterintelligence also detained an FSB agent in the Volyn region who tracked schedules and routes of Ukrzaliznytsia freight trains, which Russia planned to target with airstrikes.