“On the instructions of the SBU, the staff of the reserve collected and transmitted data on the movement of the Russian military.

In addition, they equipped caches where weapons were stored and transported armed saboteurs across the Dnieper back and forth, ”he told RIA Novosti.

According to the detained deputy director of the reserve, Viktor Taranov, he acted under the command of his son-in-law, SBU career officer Leonid Golovko.

Taranov assembled a group based on two rangers - they collected all the necessary information, and the deputy director himself passed it on to a relative.

Vladimir Leontyev, head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the Kakhovka district, said earlier that Ukrainian troops increased the intensity of shelling of Novaya Kakhovka during the referendum on the region's entry into Russia.