Gun & sword toting anime cosplayer tried to blow up military officer for Ukraine, Russia claims
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VLADIMIR Putin has accused Ukraine's secret service of recruiting a young anime-loving woman to blow up a senior Russian officer with a car bomb.
Hatice Buyukcan, 24, now faces decades in a hellhole jail after she was arrested by Kremlin enforcers and charged with being an agent of Ukraine.
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Hatice Buyukcan, 24, now faces decades in a hellhole jail after she was arrested by Kremlin enforcers and charged with being an agent of Ukraine
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The dual Russian and Ukrainian national was arrested by Putin's secret service
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Buyukcan 'admitted' to being recruited by Ukraine
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She is under investigation for high treason and terrorism and could face more than 20 years behind bars in a dingy Russian prison cell.
Moscow claims she was allegedly recruited by a Ukrainian agent named Alex on a trip to Kyiv in 2024.
Buyukcan, who lives in the Black Sea peninsula, was trained up by the SBU and taught how to shoot a gun and make bombs, Russia's secret service claims.
An FSB source alleges: "Perceiving the SBU officers as her new acquaintances, the girl spent her free time with them, driving around Kyiv in a car, not thinking about anything in particular.
'The woman agreed to cooperate with the Ukrainian special service and to communicate with her handlers, she chose the call sign Hachiko.
'The newly recruited agent received sabotage skills in orientation on the terrain, removal and laying of caches, shooting from small arms and throwing hand grenades.
'The next stage was preparation for the terrorist attack.'
The FSB say they managed to intercept Buyukcan before she carried out an assassination a Russian military figure in Novofedorivka, close to a key Russian-controlled air base.
They claim the woman was ordered to find his car and plant a bomb inside it by Ukraine.
The Kremlin has shared footage of the interrogation where they claim to show Buyukcan admitting to getting recruited.
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She can be heard saying, while under duress: "I changed from my dress into a sweatshirt and sweatpants, to visually look more like a boy, to stand out from my image.
"I repent for what I did. If I had to live through this stage of my life again, I would not go down this path.
"In fact, I wouldn't go anywhere, I would block [Ukrainian secret service agent] Alex and forget about the idea altogether."
She was allegedly detained in a hotel in possession of "Western-made explosives".
The prevented bombing was due to have taken place in May this year around the same time as Russia's Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square.
The detained woman was found with both Russian and Ukrainian passports.
A court in Sevastopol remanded Buyukcan in custody for two months pending further investigations.
It follows a string of high profile attacks on Putin's top men in recent months.
Ukraine claimed to have killed two Russian FSB agents suspected of assassinating the country's special operations chief last week.
And back in April, a senior Russian war general was brutally killed in a huge car bombing in Moscow.
Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, was taken out in a suspected assassination after a car laden with deadly explosives and shrapnel exploded next to him.
The car was quickly engulfed in flames as thick black smoke billowed into the air.
Moskalik, who had recently been promoted by Putin, was said to have been walking past at the exact moment of the explosion and was thrown "several metres" across the path.
Russian authorities also confirmed the death of Colonel Sergei Ilyin, commander of Russia's notorious 155th Marine Brigade in a Ukrainian strike.
Ilyin had died "during the special military operation" according to a post attributed to the Urmarsky district administration.
"Special military operation" is the euphemism used by Kremlin authorities when referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Russian media shows an image claiming to show Buyukcan being trained up by the SBU
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The Kremlin has shared footage of the interrogation where they claim to show Buyukcan admitting to getting recruited
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