chammaryThe Telegraph · 8:14 · 6 months ago
Petro Andryushchenko's network in occupied Mariupol runs on fury, cells that don't know each other, and explosives moved through corrupt postal routes. His boasts, including a 2023 car bomb that failed to kill the city's police chief and poisoned vodka that sickened more than 20 Russian officers , rest on his word alone.
Cell structure and FSB infiltration: Andryushchenko says network members don't know one another, so an arrest exposes no one beyond the cell. Coordinators stay in free Ukraine, and he says he doesn't want to know who they work with. He claims the FSB has never infiltrated his organization, offering no evidence beyond "We are not so stupid."
Explosives smuggling: He says getting explosives into occupied areas is not difficult, relying on corruption and on a parcel sent from Düsseldorf through German postal service to a Mariupol address. He admits this worked once, but says his people use every route they can find.
Motivation and punishment: He says fury, not ideology, is the real engine of resistance, and that anyone without a sense of fun can't take part. Those who are caught are arrested and disappear, which he presents as the cost of even public, low-risk acts like ribbons or graffiti.