Kurdoglu Evgeniy Mikhaylovich

In Simferopol, in annexed Crimea, no later than April 2025, the FSB detained 32-year-old Moldovan citizen, resident of Kerch Yevgeny Kurdoglu, when he arrived by bus at the Simferopol railway station to photograph "military gatherings. It is claimed that after his arrest, the man provided the coordinates of a cache where a homemade explosive device of the landmine type was found, which included 400 grams of plastic explosive "Semtex10", an electric detonator EDP, and a timer. Kurdoglu was accused of planning a terrorist attack and illegal handling of explosives or explosive devices. According to the FSB, being opposed to the special military operation, in the spring of 2024, the man "on his own initiative" contacted Ukrainian special services via the Internet and reported his readiness to carry out assignments for foreign intelligence. After that, he began to pass data to the Ukrainian side about military and infrastructure facilities on the territory of Crimea, the deployment locations of military equipment and positions of air defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, objects of transport and energy infrastructure of Crimea, as well as the results of missile strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, he photographed military objects and the consequences of Ukrainian strikes on the annexed peninsula, including on the railway ferry in the port of Kavkaz in August 2024. The Moldovan also allegedly received an assignment from his curator, according to which he was supposed to carry out an explosion of one of the region's life support facilities - a pumping station in the Leninsky district of Kerch. He was unable to carry out his plan because he was detained." During the investigation, the court, at the request of the investigation, placed the defendant in a pre-trial detention center.