Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had thwarted several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officials and their families in Moscow using bombs disguised as portable batteries or document briefcases. .
Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service killed Lieutenant General Kirillov, head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, on December 17 in Moscow outside his apartment building by detonating a bomb attached to a scooter. electric.
An SBU source confirmed to Reuters that the Ukrainian intelligence agency was behind the attack. Russia said it was a terrorist attack by Kiev and .
“The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation prevented a series of assassination attempts against high-ranking military personnel of the Ministry of Defense,” the FSB said.
“Four Russian citizens involved in preparing these attacks have been detained.”
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said Russian citizens were recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.
One of the men recovered a bomb disguised as a portable battery in Moscow that was supposed to be attached like magnets to the car of a top defense ministry official, the FSB said.
Another Russian was tasked with reconnaissance of senior Russian defense officials. One plan involved the delivery of a bomb disguised as a document folder, the FSB said.
