UR-77 demining vehicle of the Russian troops in the Kherson region. File photoKHERSON, Apr 19Russian security forces, on a signal from local residents, discovered a cache with weapons and ammunition, including grenade launchers, at the Pallada military plant in Kherson, allegedly left by the SBU for sabotage groups in the rear of the Russian Armed Forces when they left the city, a source in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. At the disposal of the agency were documents discovered by Russian security forces from the SBU archive, 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 of Zharkov's apartment last week, they found a cache of secret documents, grenades, fuses and radio stations. The arsenal hidden at the Pallada plant, which is part of Ukroboronprom, turned out to be larger. an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies explained to RIA Novosti. Among the items found in the cache are AK-74M assault rifles, Dragunov sniper rifles, an RPG-7 grenade launcher, a capping with grenades for it, boxes with tapes for a heavy machine gun, boxes with RGD-5 and F-1 grenades , explosives and components for improvised explosive devices, satellite communications, radio stations, a stockpile of mines for mobile mortars.
"Such mortars are placed in the kung (body) of some inconspicuous "Gazelle", with which you can quickly work out and quickly escape", — explained the representative of the Russian law enforcement agency.
According to him, weapons and ammunition were hidden in a remote industrial zone, on the territory of the plant, with a convenient and inconspicuous access to the territory. The cache was accidentally discovered by local residents and reported to the Russian security forces, the agency's interlocutor added. Pallada» is now closed, from the 1960s until recently it produced floating docks. The latest deliveries, according to data on the company's website, were to Cyprus in 2017 and to South Africa in 2016. Since March 2, Kherson has been under the complete 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.