The Ukrainian attack was aimed at neutralizing a war blogger and a high-ranking Russian official.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a planned Ukrainian attack to neutralize a high-ranking Russian official and a pro-Russian war blogger. TASR informs about it based on a Reuters report.
According to the FSB, a Russian citizen made contact with a representative of the Ukrainian Military Secret Service (GUR) through the Telegram platform. Based on his instructions, the Russian then picked up the bomb hidden in the speaker from a hiding place in Moscow, the FSB said.
The security service did not name the targeted persons, and GUR has not yet commented on the claims. However, Ukraine states that the Russian invasion poses an existential threat to the country. That is why it considers targeted attacks on persons who, according to it, are responsible for war crimes, to be legitimate, Reuters reminds. Russia claims that these are illegal “terrorist acts”.
On Tuesday, December 17, the commander of the radiation, chemical and biological defense units of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and his assistant were killed in Moscow. Kirillov was the most senior military official to be assassinated in Russia since the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, AFP reports. A source from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed to Reuters that the SBU was responsible for the attack. Russia declared that it would avenge the killing of Kirillov.
