Russias Federal Security Service (FSB) stated Wednesday that it foiled a tried assassination of a Russian war veteran.FSB officers arrested a supposed Ukrainian representative in the northwestern city of Novgorod as he was reportedly recovering an improvised explosive gadget implied to blow up the veterans vehicle.The police did not identify the designated target of the assassination plot and named the suspect just by his birth year, 1997.
FSB video released by state-run news firms showed uniformed representatives carrying out a nighttime arrest and displaying products stated to be elements of an explosive device.In the footage, the alleged bomb plotter, with his face blurred, determined himself as a Ukrainian resident who had actually gotten in touch with Ukrainian intelligence authorities by means of Telegram at some point after October 2023.
I was charged with burning the personal vehicles of supposed Russian soldiers, which I carried out in September and December 2024, he stated.
It was not clear whether he was speaking under duress.The FSB said the man had previously set fire to two automobiles bearing signs of the special military operation and had surveilled employees of local defense enterprises and critical infrastructure.In January 2025, I was entrusted with finding another soldiers automobile and residence for his future liquidation, the presumed assassin added in the video.He confronts 20 years in prison if founded guilty of planning a terrorist attack and trafficking explosives.The arrest announcement follows the obvious assassination of a previous Russian officer in a bomb attack late last month.
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