US Army Inspector General found Maj. Gen. Antonio Aguto attended a six-hour dinner in Kyiv on May 13, 2024, drank a liter of Georgian brandy while intoxicated, suffered head injuries from falls in his hotel room, and broke rules by drinking more than two alcoholic beverages on duty without a waiver.

Aguto drank heavily at Kyiv dinner, suffered head injuries from falls, violated alcohol rules

Counter-intelligence operatives with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) prevented at least four terrorist attacks that Russian intelligence assets had plotted to commit on May 9 in shopping centers and outside a city café.

Improvised explosive devices, concealed in tea packages, consisted of a timer, a detonator, and CS explosives with an incendiary mixture that was expected to cause a massive fire.

The bombs were to be set off during peak attendance hours to cause a maximum casualty rate.

The bombs were supposed to be planted in the flammable materials section of hardware stores - so that such the blaze could not be quickly put out.

One of the terrorist attacks was supposed to hit the area outside a popular city café where the Russian assets were instructed to plant the bomb in a car parked nearby.

Main Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff (GRU) sought to destabilize the country and sow chaos, also sending a signal on May 9, a symbolic day for Russia.

The Inspector General found that Antonio Aguto Jr. violated Defense Department policies on alcohol consumption after drinking from two bottles of liquor at a dinner in Kyiv.