MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) stated on Thursday it had foiled a number of plots by Ukrainian intelligence companies to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their households in Moscow utilizing bombs disguised as electrical chargers or recordsdata.
Ukrainian SBU intelligence killed Lieutenant Normal Kirillov, head of Russia’s nuclear, organic and chemical safety troops, on December 17 in Moscow, in entrance of his condominium constructing, by detonating a bomb connected to an electrical scooter.
An SBU supply confirmed to Reuters that Ukrainian intelligence companies have been behind the assault. Russia stated the killing was a terrorist assault carried out by Kyiv and vowed revenge.
“The Federal Safety Service of the Russian Federation prevented a collection of assassination makes an attempt in opposition to high-ranking servicemen of the Ministry of Protection,” the FSB stated.
“4 Russian residents concerned in making ready these assaults have been arrested.”
The FSB, the primary successor to the Soviet-era KGB, stated the Russian residents have been recruited by Ukrainian intelligence companies.
One of many males recovered a bomb disguised as an exterior battery in Moscow which was to be connected with magnets to the automobile of a senior Protection Ministry official, the FSB stated.
One other Russian was accountable for reconnaissance of senior Russian protection officers. One of many plots concerned the supply of a bomb disguised as a file of paperwork, the FSB stated.
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