🔧 Sabotage

Armed saboteurs operating in groups of 5-20 men, sometimes uniformed and sometimes in civilian clothes, were spotted in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Kryvoi Rih, Ivano-Frankivsk and Mykolaiv.

Kyiv, Kyiv
Verified Independently confirmed by 6 sources
Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post UNIAN Censor.NET

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Russian saboteurs (military_unit) Kyiv (location) Kharkiv (location) Odesa (location) Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups (military_unit) National Police of Ukraine (organization) Ukrainian soldiers (military_unit) Vasylkiv (location) Beresteiska subway station (location) Shuliavska subway station (location) Universitet subway station (location) Suspilne (organization) Technical staff (person) Kyiv HPP (location) Kyiv TPP-6 (location) Brovary line (location) National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (organization) Russian spies (military_unit) Kyiv City State Administration (organization) Irpin City Polyclinic (organization) Vitali Klitschko (person) Kyiv metro (organization) Ukrainian National Police (organization) National Police (organization) Ukrainska Pravda (organization) Russian forces (organization) Maria Prymachenko (person) gas pipe (location) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) Irpin River (location) Kyiv Reservoir (location) Il-76 (weapon_system) State Special Communications Service of Ukraine (organization) Ukrainian National Police uniform (weapon_system) Peremohy Avenue (location) Beresteiska Metro Station (location) Solomenskyi district (location) Residential building on Lobanovsky Street (location) Private Residential House (location) Borodyanka (location) Prospect Pobedy (location) Stoyanka-Zhytomyr Bridge (location) Politechnichnyi Institut Metro Station (organization) Stoyanka (location) Ozerna Airfield (location) T-72 tank (weapon_system) Vyshhorod District (location) Kyiv-Zhytomyr Bridge (location) Solomyansky district (location) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (person) Ukrvodshlyakh (organization) Kyiv TV Tower (location)

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Armed saboteurs operating in groups of 5-20 men, sometimes uniformed and sometimes in civilian clothes, were spotted in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Kryvoi Rih, Ivano-Frankivsk and Mykolaiv.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups used Ukrainian police cars and uniforms as cover near Vasylkiv

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Russian forces approached a checkpoint wearing National Police of Ukraine uniforms in a car with flashing lights

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Russian forces shot Ukrainian soldiers at the checkpoint near Vasylkiv

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

The attack was intended to distract attention

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Electricity went off on February 26, and eventually water and gas were cut to the hospital

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Russian forces bombed the village of Ivankiv in the Kyiv region, where a small museum hosted Prymachenko works. The museum was hit and burned to the ground.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

A woman was recorded on video applying a marking to a gas pipe at Rudenko Street 8.

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

A fire caused by ammunition hit broke out in two warehouse buildings with an area of about 700 square meters on Volynska Street, Solomyansky district, Kyiv.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

The body of a security guard was found during the fire at the warehouse.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

20 people and 5 pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.415Z

Source story: day-4a-2022-02-27