The cost for the query stands at an impressive $400,000.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has thwarted two assassination attempts on journalist Dmitry Gordon, with evidence pointing to the involvement of Russian special services as the culprits.
According to SBU Head Vasily Malyuk, the Russian operatives were planning to use explosive devices or missile attacks to eliminate Gordon. The conspirators included former regional deputies and persons instructed by Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service), who were conducting visual surveillance of Gordon before the planned attacks. Malyuk stated that another group was also involved in the attempts, working with a former MP from the Party of Regions, Hrushevsky, who is now in custody.
The SBU’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism efforts successfully prevented these assassination attempts. The Dagestani and his accomplices have been arrested and are under arrest. The alleged perpetrators were willing to spend $400,000 on these attempts.
The Russians were planning to kill Gordon with a short-barreled rifled weapon, and if he was with a guard, they would use an automatic weapon, and a control shot with a pistol. The SBU discovered that this group was conducting visual surveillance of Gordon and had studied his daily routine, calculating where he spends the night.
Malyuk stated that the attempts were made because Gordon is considered a threat due to his truthful reporting. No further details were provided about the second group involved in the attempts on Gordon’s life. The SBU did not mention any new sabotage activities committed by the group working with Hrushevsky in the Poltava region, or any new visual surveillance activities conducted by this group on Gordon.
This information was revealed in interviews and statements by Ukrainian officials and investigative journalists, highlighting Russia's direct involvement in targeting Ukrainian journalists for assassination. The SBU did not mention any new plans for a rocket-shahid strike against Gordon.
The SBU's investigative efforts revealed that the Russian FSB, along with former regional deputies and other individuals, were involved in two assassination attempts on journalist Dmitry Gordon. These attempts were part of a larger landscape of war-and-conflicts, general-news, and crime-and-justice that have been unfolding in Ukraine. The SBU's counterintelligence and counterterrorism unit thwarted these attempts, apprehending the alleged perpetrators and preventing the use of explosive devices, missile attacks, short-barreled rifled weapons, and automatic weapons against Gordon.
