MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Monday it had detained a 57-year-old German woman with a bomb in her backpack as part of what it considered a false flag operation run by Ukrainian intelligence.
Unverified footage showed a woman lying on the asphalt of a parking lot while armed men pointed their guns at her — and a backpack at her side. Experts exploded the backpack, according to the images.
The FSB said the German woman, who had a bomb with the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT, was targeting a police facility in the Stavropol region as part of a false flag operation run by Ukraine.
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The FSB said it also detained a citizen from a Central Asian country who thought he was acting on behalf of a ‘terrorist organization’and who was supposed to detonate the bomb.
‘The man’s actions were coordinated by employees of the Ukrainian special services under the guise of members of one of the international terrorist organizations banned in Russia,’ the FSB stated.
Reuters was unable to immediately verify details of the report. Ukraine had no immediate comment.
A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin said the ministry had been made aware of the report but declined to give further details.
(Reporting from Reuters)
