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Subversive activities in the East became especially acute and escalated against the background of the
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine called the "Russian Spring."
Russia considered the Eastern and
Southern Ukraine territories to be part of its state long before these events. In 2013, a
Russian citizen received a foreign
passport, which indicates the place of birth of the mysterious Republic of Crimea as part of Russia.[3] And on August 13, 2015, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania published a page of the Russian passport issued in 2011, where the person's place of birth is the
Odesa region of Russia.[4]
According to
The Financial Times, Russia has been using the Snake virus since 2010 to infiltrate Ukraine's computer systems.[5]
Capture of regional state administrations
Tents of pro-Russian activists in Odesa
After the occupation of the Autonomy by Russian troops, in February–March 2014,
separatist rallies and seizures of regional state administrations under Russian and Soviet flags took place in the eastern and southern oblasts.[6]
On March 1, Russians and local pro-Russian activists seized the
Donetsk Regional State Administration, which officials have already left.[7] On the same day, the
Kharkiv Regional State Administration was seized, 106 people were injured. Similar rallies took place in the regional centers of southern Ukraine. Several thousand pro-Russian rallies were held in Odesa for federalization and the second state language.[8]
In April 2014, the
SBU detained at least 13 saboteurs. Most of them admitted that they performed the tasks of the Russian special services.[21][22][23] On April 11, sabotage groups were detained in the
Kherson region, and on April 14, Russian GRU officers involved in inciting confrontation in the east were detained.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
In May 2014, 8 saboteurs were detained. A group of extremists in the Kharkiv region and residents of Odesa who became
mercenaries of the Russian secret services were exposed and stopped.[35][36][37][38]
In July 2014, the SBU detained 3 saboteurs and exposed sabotage and subversive groups in
Donetsk and Odesa.[45][46][47][48]
On October 20, 2014, the group, which acted on the scenario of the Russian secret services and was to carry out
terrorist acts against Ukrainian high-ranking officials, was exposed.[49]