foiling the plan of Kiev to assassinate a high-ranking Russian officer; The bomb was embedded in the speaker!
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted Reuters, according to the announcement of the Federal Security Service of Russia, a terrorist attack against a high-ranking official as well as a pro-Moscow blogger has been foiled.
According to the Federal Security Service of Russia, a Russian citizen communicated with the Military Intelligence Organization of Ukraine through the Telegram messenger. According to this security organization, a homemade bomb was delivered to this person in a secret place in Moscow.
The FSB said that explosives equivalent to one and a half kilograms of TNT were used in this bomb and were embedded inside a portable speaker.
This institution has not disclosed the name of the high-ranking officer of the Ministry of Defense, as well as the mentioned blogger. Moscow has previously accused Ukraine of assassinating civilians, including Daria Dugin, the daughter of a prominent Russian philosopher, in a terrorist attack in 2022.
Ukraine’s security service assassinated Igor Krylov, the general and commander of the radio, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian army, in Moscow on December 17.
Keith Kellogg, a retired American general and special envoy of President-elect Donald Trump to deal with the Ukraine war on December 18, described such assassinations as “unintelligent and a little excessive”. Moscow has emphasized that it will take revenge for Krylov’s assassination.
