The Security Service of Ukraine arrested the organizer and key members of a criminal network in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast involved in a Russian plot to create pro-Russian separatist republics in Western Ukraine.
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The Security Service of Ukraine thwarted Kremlin plans to create a 'Federative Republic of Ukraine' comprising Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi regions
The network planned to recruit over 500 traitors in western and central regions to support the separatist plot
Armed separatists planned to eliminate security forces and government representatives before seizing administrative buildings to declare 'people's republics' modeled on the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics
Ukrainian security forces thwarted attempts by Russian proxies to organize a Federal Republic of Ukraine
Security forces arrested an organizer and agents in the Ivano-Frankivsk region
Russia planned to create republics in western Ukraine
The planned republic would have included Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi oblasts
The agents planned to hire 500 rebels and attack security forces and government officials
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