In Kyiv, the car of an officer of the National Guard of Ukraine, a hero of Ukraine, was burned right on the day of his 25th birthday. The perpetrator has already been detained by law enforcement officers.
The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this.
Car of Ukrainian hero burned in Kyiv: what is known
The car of an officer of the National Guard of Ukraine, a Hero of Ukraine, was burned by a Russian agent from Crimea right on the day of his 25th birthday.
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According to the investigation, the man moved to Ukraine from temporarily occupied Crimea in 2021.
Then he returned to the military unit, but after some time he was dismissed.
Over the past year, while working as a courier, the suspect began looking for a way to contact the enemy’s special services in order to leave for the Russian Federation.
In June 2025, already at the request of his curators, he received the task of finding and setting fire to a car belonging to a National Guard serviceman.
In this way he had to demonstrate his reliability and willingness to cooperate.
“In the courtyard of a multi-story building, in the area where he lives, the suspect took several photographs of various Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles, which he sent to the customer for approval,” the Prosecutor General’s Office noted.
When the arsonist was given a camouflage-colored Ford Ranger, he doused it with a flammable substance and set it on fire.
Before this, the man specially changed his clothes in the park so that he could not be recognized.
As noted by the Prosecutor General's Office, those who ordered the arson gave the suspect a pistol in order to give him a more difficult task later – to kill some famous person.
However, it did not come to that, since the suspect explained that he did not personally know any high-ranking officials.
The perpetrator has now been detained and taken into custody. The investigation is ongoing.
Photo: Prosecutor General's Office
Photo: Prosecutor General's Office
Photo: Prosecutor General's Office
Earlier, the SBU and the National Police exposed six arsonists who operated in different regions of Ukraine on orders from Russian special services. All of them were looking for easy money, and the youngest of them was only 13 years old.
