The Russian Federal Security Service has intercepted a shipment of heated shoe insoles rigged with explosives, which arrived from Poland and was destined for the special military operation zone.
According to the press office, a foreign national born in 1994 has been detained in Russia. He was involved in the smuggling of weapons to Russia from Poland through Belarus, organized by Ukrainian intelligence agencies. A Ukrainian handler ordered the man to receive a shipment of 504 improvised explosive devices disguised as heated shoe insoles through a logistics company in Moscow.
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Source: TASS News
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