CyberBerkut hacktivists leak docs suggesting Volnovakha bus attack was a false flag

The bus shelling incident in Volnovakha could have been organized by the Security Service of Ukraine, hackers from CyberBerkut group claim, publishing compromised SBU documents on the official website of the network.

Hackers released letters and cryptograms of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the SBU, confirming that the attack could have been planned and carried out by SBU Office in Donetsk region. The documents also contained information about how Ukrainian security forces used the incident for political purposes.

In a 'confidential' letter from January 13, SBU first deputy head Basil Gritsak instructed Gennady Kuznetsov, head of the center "A" of SBU Anti-Terrorist Center, to carry out a provocative campaign, aimed at laying the blame for civilian deaths on independence supporters in Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republic. Gritsak ordered "to plan and submit proposals for provocative actions, which would help to charge DNR and LNR militias with civilian deaths".

CyberBerkut also published a cryptogram, where employees of the SBU Office in Donetsk reported they had implemented "propaganda campaign to make the required informational impact on Ukraine's population". The cryptogram was sent from SBU Office in Donetsk region to Kiev and Kramatorsk. The network also released a list of media publications, accusing independence supporters of shelling the bus.

The passenger bus was shelled near Volnovakha south of the city of Donetsk on January 13. The incident left 10 people dead and 17 injured. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused independence supporters from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) of the attack. The DPR denied its involvement and called Poroshenko's statement a provocation, explaining that DPR artillery was based too far away to reach the town or its neighborhoods.

Comment: Here is a partial translation of the leaked document (translation by Sott.net):

From: Mariupol, Department of the security service of Ukraine in Donetsk

To: Kiev, Head of Department of the security service of Ukraine colonel Dublik A.J.

About carrying out of the information campaign to blame DNR and LNR in death of civilians.

To reach the goal of the information campaign the Department takes proper propaganda and counter-propaganda measures to form a necessary information impact on the population of Ukraine.

As part of the planned measures to discredit terror organisation DNR there has been published information material under the title ,A shell by Volnovaha exploded next to passengers bus. 10 people killed" on the popular regional internet resources ,News of Donbass" (_http://novosti.dn.ua/details/242457) and ,In the city" (_http://dn.vgorode.ua/news/sobytyia/248106). Additionally an article under the title ,DNR shelled an Ukrainian checkpoint by Volnovaha: 10 civilians killed".

As part of the propaganda campaign we organized an interview with soldiers of the battalion ,Kiev-2" who were in the immediate vicinity to the checkpoint by Volnovaha. The mentioned interview will be published shortly on the popular internet channel ,Hromadske.tv" (_https://www.youtube.com/user/HromadskeZP) under the title ,Shelling of a checkpoint by Volnovaha. Witnesses' report." The purpose of this interview is to blame DNR and LNR in killing passengers of the bus at Volnovaha at 13.01.2015.

Moreover, on our initiative on the pages of high-ranking internet resource ,0629" were published articles ,On the route Donetsk-Mariupol militants struck artillery attack on a bus. 10 people died" (_http://www.0629.com.ua/news/710328) and ,The cause of death of people near Volnovaha - certainly not mine, - expert opinion" (_http://www.0629.com.ua/article/712305), the contents of which explains to readers who really has been fighting in eastern Ukraine, breaking Minsk cease-fire agreement on a bilateral basis, and the consequences for the civilian population of Ukraine they lead to.

In order to create the necessary information impact on the population of Europe and the United States on the pages of a popular internet resource "Ukraine@war"an article "Bus with civilians hit at Ukrainian checkpost near Volnovakha" has been published (_http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.com/2015/01/volnovakha.html) , where by bringing graphic materials, in the tragedy at Volnovaha the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR) was blamed.

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