Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the feared KGB of the Soviet Union, said on Thursday it thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate Russian military officers and their families in Moscow using hidden bombs.
“The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has prevented a series of assassination attempts on high-ranking military personnel of the Defense Ministry. Four Russian citizens involved in the preparation of these attacks have been detained,” the Russian security agency said.
According to the FSB, one of the detainees procured a bomb small enough to be disguised as a portable cell phone charger, which was supposed to be attached to a car with magnets. A second member of the conspiracy was tasked with scouting senior Russian defense officials to choose targets for the operation.
Russian state television broadcast footage of the suspects ostensibly confessing they were recruited by Ukrainian agents to assassinate Russian military officials.
The tactic described by the FSB was similar to the bombing that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirilov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, on December 17. […]
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