UP: Investigators and special forces commander arrive at site of Security Service-Defence Intelligence standoff in Kyiv – photos
Officers from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the commander of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SSU) Centre for Special Operations Alpha have arrived at the site 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 have been injured as a result of the confrontation.
Following this, representatives of both security services began arriving 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 the 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 has received a complaint about an abduction from Kaplunov's lawyers and that investigators are 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 has foiled a terrorist attack against a leader of a Russian opposition political nationalist movement who had arrived in Ukraine. No further details were provided.
- A similar statement appeared on DIU's official pages but was later deleted.
- Police cordoned off Shumskoho Street in the Dniprovskyi district in Kyiv, where the standoff between the SSU and DIU is taking place.
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