Russia: FSB arrests three suspects after premature detention of explosive device in Khanty-Mansiysk Region


Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained three agents of Ukraine’s special services who were plotting to assassinate a serviceman taking part in the special military operation, the FSB press office reported.

“In Khanty-Mansiysk Region, the FSB has thwarted the illegal activity of agents of Ukrainian special services, a Ukrainian national born in 1980 and a Belarusian citizen born in 1976, involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack using an improvised explosive device against a servicemen of the volunteer battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry taking part in the special military operation,” the press office said. “While the men were assembling their improvised explosive device, it went off prematurely.”

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Source: TASS News


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