Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko told reporters that the Ukrainian side planned an assassination attempt on him in March 2023, but these plans were thwarted thanks to the good work of the FSB department in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The mayor specified that the attackers planned to use explosives to eliminate him , and Artem Pyzin, a resident of the DPR recruited by the counterintelligence department of the SBU, was to become the executor.
«It is the merit of the special services, in this case, the FSB of the Russian Federation, that they stopped this issue in time … the task of monitoring, establishing routes … Later, following the instructions of the SBU, he tried to assemble an explosive device in one of the abandoned buildings, which exploded in his hands,» Prikhodko said.
According to the mayor of Gorlovka , law enforcement officers are currently searching for all the persons involved in this crime.