Russia announced last Friday the thwarting of an assassination attempt on “a senior state official” without disclosing his name. The Russian Federal Security Service explained that it was able to thwart an operation that the Ukrainian intelligence service was planning to carry out against an important figure in the Russian state.
Information indicates that the attempt took place at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
The Russian newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” revealed that “a group of saboteurs” was planning to assassinate Shoigu “on the orders of the Ukrainian intelligence service,” indicating that the plan was based on carrying out the attack using a video camera hidden in a flower vase.
According to a statement by the Federal Security Service, Ukrainian intelligence recruited four people to carry out the operation, including an immigrant from Central Asia. The agency considered that “the regime in Kyiv, under the guidance of the West, is planning to carry out similar attacks in a number of Russian regions.”
The Russian agency “TASS” quoted local sources as saying that a Russian couple and an immigrant from a Central Asian country were arrested on charges of preparing for the operation, noting that Ukrainian intelligence offered to pay “dues in narcotics” to one of the detainees involved in the planning.
The sources confirmed the confiscation of means of communication containing correspondence between the detainees and an employee of Ukrainian intelligence.
