Russia's FSB arrests "Minister of Internal Affairs of the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic" – intelligence

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO - WEDNESDAY, 20 APRIL 2022, 10:55

IGOR KORNET

According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian FSB has arrested the head of the so-called "Ministry of Internal Affairs of Luhansk People's Republic" Igor Kornet and sent him to jail.

Source: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Quote: "Against the background of failures at the frontline, Moscow has begun the "cleansing" of the leaders of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic."

According to the information received by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, "the Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR, Major General Igor Kornet, born on 29 April 1973, was arrested by the Russian FSB and is currently being held in the FSB detention centre in Rostov-on-Don, Russia."

Details: The members of the intelligence services say that the arrest of the "Minister of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People’s Republic" caused a negative reaction from the security forces and the political leadership of the  "republic"; they see this as the beginning of power changes in the quasi-state.

It is also reported that according to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the militants’ leader of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasichnyk "is making every effort to release Kornet from custody and reinstate him in his role".