Russian intelligence services tried to make a Ukrainian 15-year-old girl a suicide bomber by forcing her to carry explosives into a police station in Chernihiv.

The details of the foiled operation were reported by Suspilne, citing the representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine.

The Russian Special Services were preparing a terrorist operation in Chernihiv at the end of December 2024, trying to use a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Kyiv who was to unknowingly bring a package of explosives into a police building. The bomb was supposed to detonate as soon as the girl entered the building.

The only thing that saved the schoolgirl from death was the fact that SSU counterintelligence operatives knew about the Russian operation from the very beginning, and it was they who planted the bomb.

Operational game of counterintelligence

The story of the suicide girl began in Koriukivka. At the end of November, an 18-year-old local resident set fire to the local Center of Provision of Administrative Services. The boy did it for money at the request of Russian Special Services. He filmed a video as a report on the work done, after which it was distributed by Russian telegram channels. Later, SSU officers caught the arsonist.

“We caught him together with the police. He cooperated with us, he is 18 years old. He provided his telegram so that we could communicate with a foreign special service. And during the operational game, the Russians were practicing certain tasks, and we were fulfilling them.”

During the communication, the representatives of the Russian Special Services gave us tasks, including making two bombs from a fire extinguisher and a thermos. They demanded video reports at all stages of the process, not knowing that SSU operatives were communicating with them.

“We replaced the explosives with non-explosives. He was supposed to make the explosives and, according to legend, hide them in a cache. And another person was supposed to take them from the cache,” counterintelligence representatives said.

This other person was a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Kyiv. One day, she received a message from an unknown number on Telegram offering her a part-time job.

The communication lasted for about three days, after which the schoolgirl received specific work instructions: to go to Chernihiv and pick up an unknown package in one of the high-rise buildings. The Russians promised the 15-year-old schoolgirl up to two thousand dollars for delivering the package.

At the designated location, an unfamiliar man handed the girl a package, which, as it turned out later, contained a bomb disguised as a thermos. After that, the girl received further instructions from the Russians.

“I took it, he told me to go to a bench somewhere, take the phone out of the package, and not to touch anything at all. There was a box taped over with duct tape. He told me to break the tape, turn on the phone, see if it was on, and put it back,” the girl says, recalling that she was then ordered to go to the police station. “He told me to go out before the police station and walk around. He told me to put the phone with the box somewhere in front of it. He said to make sure that I really had come there and that I would really give that stuff back.”

After making sure that the girl was there, the representatives of the Russian Special Services ordered her to enter the police station. According to an SSU counterintelligence officer, when the girl got inside, the Russians tried to remotely blow her up with the explosives.

According to a CI officer, the package with the improvised explosive device contained three kilograms of fake “explosive” and three kilograms of nuts as ready-made fragments.

The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation cleans up its “mess”

According to operatives, the authors of the operation were the representatives of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is the central command and control body of Russian military intelligence, whose key areas of focus are intelligence and sabotage.

After the operation at the police station failed, they contacted a young man who made explosive devices and told him to prepare the explosives that someone would allegedly pick up.

“While he was connecting these wires to the phone, the curators from a foreign special service immediately made a call,” the SSU said.

When the Russians realized that it was not a recruited guy talking to them, but counterintelligence officers, they had immediately resorted to threats. Here is an example of one of the messages.

“You realize that I will kill you. You realize that you will die. And tell the guys over there that they face same. Together with their families. Now I will kill you many times more,” said a representative of the Russian Special Service.

Over the past month, a series of terrorist attacks have taken place in Ukraine. In particular, explosions near and in the premises of the shopping centers took place in Pavlohrad, Rivne, and Kamianets-Podilskyi. The peculiarity of these attacks was that the Russian Special Services used Ukrainian youth as suicide bombers.

Militarnyi previously reported that the Security Service and the National Police of Ukraine had detained accomplices in the terrorist attack that had been ordered by Russia in Mykolaiv on February 14 that year. They were four underage residents of Poltava district aged 14 to 17.