UP: Investigators and special forces commander arrive at scene of Security Service-Defence Intelligence standoff in Kyiv – photos
Officers from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the commander of Special Operations Centre Alpha, part of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), have arrived at the scene of a standoff between Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) and the SSU in Kyiv.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources
Details: Ukrainska Pravda has learned that three DIU officers were injured in the confrontation.
Representatives of both security services later began to arrive at the scene.
SBI investigators subsequently arrived, and the SSU and DIU personnel agreed to unload their weapons so that investigative actions could begin.
No outsiders are currently being allowed access to the scene. Sources in law enforcement told Ukrainska Pravda that the commander of Special Operations Centre Alpha has also arrived.
Background:
- On 1 September, the Russian Volunteer Corps said that its deputy commander for combat operations, Stepan Kaplunov, had been abducted by unknown individuals in the courtyard of a residential building. [The Russian Volunteer Corps is a military and political organisation established in 2022 that consists of Russian volunteers who have been fighting for Ukraine since 2014]
- The SBI confirmed to Ukrainska Pravda that it had received a complaint about an abduction from Kaplunov's lawyers and that investigators were examining it to determine the appropriate legal classification before entering the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
- On 2 September, the SSU said that, jointly with DIU, it had foiled a terrorist attack against a leader of a Russian opposition political nationalist movement who had arrived in Ukraine. No further details were provided.
- DIU released a similar statement, but it was later deleted.
- Police have cordoned off Shumskoho Street in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district, where the standoff between the SSU and DIU is taking place.
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