As part of Operation Vostok, the Slovaks dismantled a sabotage cell and prevented an attack on critical infrastructure, the minister announced

On Monday, the Minister of the Interior announced in a video posted on Facebook that the event was codenamed Vostok.

“It dealt with the targeted activity of two foreign nationals and a citizen of the Slovak Republic, from which there was a real suspicion of possible preparation of an attack consisting in the destruction or disabling of an important energy facility, specifically a gas or oil pipeline,” said the Minister of the Interior, who confirmed that one person had been deported to Hungary and the other to Ukraine.

According to Šutaj Eštok, these persons used a drone in the no-fly zone to monitor specific objects of the energy infrastructure, such as the transformer station near the village of Veľké Kapušany, the Eustream gas compressor station in Veľké Kapušany, the railway station in Veľké Kapušany, the Vojany power plant and other objects. They were also supposed to monitor Slovakia’s state border with Ukraine.

The police also discovered that one of the suspects was moving with a motor vehicle near the railway station in the town of Michalovce and documented the loading of military equipment of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic onto wagons.

“During the entire event, various items used for monitoring activities, telephones, laptops, various electronic equipment for recording images and sound, data carriers, signal jammers, thermal cameras, night vision, ballistic vests, maps and other things were secured,” Šutaj Eštok added. .