A column of Russian military equipment on a highway near Kherson. File photoKHERSON, Mar 19After the discovery of a cache with weapons and explosives at the Kherson military plant, Russian security forces are conducting raids in the city and in the region to identify sabotage groups left by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) when fleeing the city, a source in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. Earlier, as RIA reported An employee of one of the Russian law enforcement agencies, at the signal of local residents at the Pallada plant in Kherson, the military found a cache, presumably left during the departure from the city by the SBU for sabotage groups in the rear of the Russian Armed Forces. Among the items found in the cache are AK-74M assault rifles, Dragunov sniper rifles, an RPG-7 grenade launcher with grenades for it, boxes with belts for a heavy machine gun, boxes with RGD-5 and F-1 grenades, explosives and components for improvised explosive devices, tools satellite communications, radio stations, a supply of mines for mobile mortars.
"At the moment, a number of events are underway in Kherson and the region, aimed at identifying sabotage groups", the agency’s interlocutor said.
Earlier, RIA Novosti obtained documents from the SBU archive discovered by Russian security forces, from which it follows that this Ukrainian agency, before fleeing from Kherson, through the head of the Kherson port police department Maxim Zharkov, recruited members of the local territorial defense for sabotage in the territories liberated by the Russian army. During a search in Zharkov's apartment last week, they found a cache of secret documents, grenades, fuses and radio stations. On March 2, Kherson is under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is “to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” . The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.