Authorities in Moscow said Saturday that they had prevented the killing of a senior Russian military officer and a pro-war Russian blogger with a homemade bomb hidden in a portable music speaker in a suspected plot prepared by Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the Soviet-era successor to the KGB, said the now-detained Russian citizen appears to have followed orders from an intelligence officer working for Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Service (GUR). He goes by the name “Andrey” on the Telegram messaging service.
As part of the plot, the Russian suspects recovered a homemade bomb worth 1.5kg of TNT disguised as a portable speaker from a hideout in Moscow, the FSB said.
The FSB did not provide further details about the identity of the target.
The disclosure of the alleged plot comes 10 days after Ukraine assassinated the commander of the Russian military’s nuclear, biological and biological forces in Moscow.
Last October, Andriy Korotkyy, the head of security at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, was killed in a car bombing. The GUR took responsibility for the operation, calling Korotkyy a “war criminal.”
Kiev has not recently claimed responsibility for the plot.
