SBU neutralizes Russian terrorist group which attacked Mariupol on Jan 24 – SBU chief
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has successfully completed an operation to neutralize a terrorist gang which shelled Mariupol on January 24, SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has reported.
"Today we can report that an operation on neutralizing a terrorist [was successful], he was directly managed by Russian artillery and committed shell attacks, and all his ten accomplices have been neutralized," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that the terrorists were killed as they were in territory which isn't under the control of Ukrainian forces, as a result it was impossible to arrest them.
Nalyvaichenko reiterated that this was the third stage of the special operation to neutralize the terrorist group, comprised of the Russian servicemen, who shelled Mariupol on January 24.
The SBU chief said that he has information that Russian troops, in order to conceal their crimes, have evacuated the bodies of militants to Russia. "In order that such things won't happen with Russian troops any more, please, don't take part in terrorist attacks against the peaceful population of our state," he stressed.
As police chief in the Donetsk region Viacheslav Abroskin had earlier reported, 30 people killed and 117 were injured as a result of the shell attack on Mariupol on January 24.
