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Russia Today
07-08-2025
- Russia Today
Teens recruited by Kiev busted for plot to murder Russian officer
Two teenagers have been detained in Novosibirsk, central Russia for attempting to poison a Russian military officer on orders from Ukrainian special services, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported. In a statement on Thursday, the agency said the minors were recruited online through a site offering quick money and were later coordinated remotely from Ukraine. They received instructions via Telegram, the FSB said, as confirmed by data found on their seized devices. The teens were later given three containers of toxic chemicals meant to cause acute heart failure and possibly death, which they applied to the door handle and side mirror of the officer's car. The FSB did not disclose the names of the substances. The joint operation by the FSB and Russia's Investigative Committee prevented the assassination attempt, and the officer was unharmed. A criminal case has been opened for attempted murder committed by a group. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Kiev has repeatedly targeted Russian military personnel and public figures, often using sabotage. The FSB regularly reports that it has thwarted these types of plots and has warned citizens to stay alert, noting that Ukrainian intelligence recruits through websites, social media, and messaging platforms. Earlier, the FSB reported the arrest of agents tied to Ukraine's Security Service and Main Intelligence Directorate, which allegedly planned to kill workers at a defense plant in Yaroslavl using toxic chemicals placed in vehicle air ducts. Other reported plots included poisoning food and drinks at an air defense pilot celebration in Armavir and contaminating humanitarian food supplies intended for Russian troops. The suspects in all three plots were charged with preparing acts of terrorism and committing treason.
Russia Today
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Ukrainians tip off Russia on draft office locations
Ukrainian citizens have provided Russia with the coordinates of local enlistment offices on multiple occasions, Andrey Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, claims. The senior official made the remarks on Tuesday, warning the country's citizens against disclosing the locations of recruitment centers, while threatening them with legal action if they do. 'There have been cases where Ukrainians have sent information to enemy [Telegram] bots. This is true. These people are already known to Ukrainian special services,' Kovalenko stated. In recent days, the Russian military has attacked multiple Ukrainian enlistment offices, which are officially known as territorial centers of recruitment and social support (TCR). In its daily briefing on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry mentioned that TCRs had been among the targets attacked, without providing any further details. Multiple videos circulating online indicate that Geran-2 kamikaze drones were primarily employed in carrying out the strikes. Enlistment offices have reportedly been hit throughout Ukraine, including in Kharkov, Kremenchug, Poltava, the Ukrainian-controlled Russian city of Zaporozhye, and other locations. Online footage suggests that Russia's strikes on TCRs have been welcomed by some Ukrainians, with onlookers heard cheering the attacks. Videos of the strikes have also met with positive reaction online, prompting concerns from Ukrainian officials and public figures. For instance, the former commander of the notorious neo-Nazi Aidar battalion, Yeveny Dikiy, said that welcoming attacks on recruitment offices should be treated as high treason. 'There are real Ukrainian citizens who rejoice at the Russian Federation's strikes on TCRs. This is, in fact, already treason. The SBU should be sent out over such comments, and these people should be prosecuted,' Dikiy stated. Ukrainian mobilization has grown increasingly chaotic and violent over the years of the conflict. Numerous videos circulating online show enlistment officers chasing would-be recruits in the streets, commonly backed by civilian police. Reluctant draftees are sometimes threatened with military-grade weaponry and often beaten, along with any bystanders who attempt to intervene. The mobilization effort has received the moniker 'busification', which describes the process of violently packing recruits into the unmarked minibuses commonly used by TCR officials. Kiev has long dismissing reports of widespread violence and abuse related to mobilization as 'Russian propaganda.' However, last April the country's military did admit that its recruitment process has experienced some hiccups. 'Busification is a shameful phenomenon, and we're doing our best to avoid it,' deputy head of Ukraine's Defense Ministry Lt. Gen. Ivan Gavrilyuk said.
Russia Today
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Woman apprehended while planting car bomb – FSB (VIDEO)
A young woman in St. Petersburg has been caught placing a bomb under a car, according to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). The suspect allegedly acted on orders from Ukraine and was targeting a defense industry employee. In a statement on Thursday, the agency said that it had 'disrupted the activities of a Russian citizen, born in 2002, who was involved in preparing a terrorist act on behalf of Ukrainian special services.' 'She was detained by FSB officers at the moment she was laying an improvised explosive device under the car of the intended target,' according to the agency, which released the video of the purported act and the arrest. The clip shows the woman walking with a phone in her hand, and then sliding an unidentified package under a Mercedes SUV. After being arrested, she initially claimed she had merely been tasked with tracking the vehicle, but seconds later acknowledged that she had also 'tried to plant some kind of a device' under it. According to the FSB, in June 2024, the woman reached out to Ukrainian special services, telling them 'she was ready to participate in sabotage and terrorist activities in exchange for help leaving [Russia] and obtaining citizenship in an EU country.' While carrying out tasks for her supervising officer, the woman painted pro-Ukrainian slogans in public places in Moscow Region and tried to set fire to a railway facility, the FSB said. In April 2025, she allegedly traveled to St. Petersburg to follow an unnamed defense industry employee, planning to blow up his car with an improvised explosive device. Moscow has accused Ukrainian special services of hatching numerous sabotage and assassination plots targeting Russian officials and opinion leaders. In December 2024, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops, was killed in Moscow by a bomb attached to a scooter; Kiev later claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Russia Today
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Russian FSB catches woman planting car bomb (VIDEO)
A young woman in St. Petersburg has been caught placing a bomb under a car, according to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). The suspect allegedly acted on orders from Ukraine and was targeting a defense industry employee. In a statement on Thursday, the agency said that it had 'disrupted the activities of a Russian citizen, born in 2002, who was involved in preparing a terrorist act on behalf of Ukrainian special services.' 'She was detained by FSB officers at the moment she was laying an improvised explosive device under the car of the intended target,' according to the agency, which released the video of the purported act and the arrest. The clip shows the woman walking with a phone in her hand, and then sliding an unidentified package under a Mercedes SUV. After being arrested, she initially claimed she had merely been tasked with tracking the vehicle, but seconds later acknowledged that she had also 'tried to plant some kind of a device' under it. According to the FSB, in June 2024, the woman reached out to Ukrainian special services, telling them 'she was ready to participate in sabotage and terrorist activities in exchange for help leaving [Russia] and obtaining citizenship in an EU country.' While carrying out tasks for her supervising officer, the woman painted pro-Ukrainian slogans in public places in Moscow Region and tried to set fire to a railway facility, the FSB said. In April 2025, she allegedly traveled to St. Petersburg to follow an unnamed defense industry employee, planning to blow up his car with an improvised explosive device. Moscow has accused Ukrainian special services of hatching numerous sabotage and assassination plots targeting Russian officials and opinion leaders. In December 2024, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops, was killed in Moscow by a bomb attached to a scooter; Kiev later claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Russia Today
25-06-2025
- Russia Today
Kiev-orchestrated bomb plot thwarted in Moscow Region
Two Russian citizens who were collecting an improvised explosive from a cache outside Moscow, have been killed after opening fire on law enforcement, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Wednesday. The deceased were identified by the agency as 'accomplices of Ukrainian special services,' who allegedly planned to use the device in a terrorist attack targeting a Russian military service member. According to the FSB, video footage appearing to show surveillance scenes along with the alleged IED proves that the bomb was ready for activation when it was seized. Plot details were subsequently discovered on suspects' phones and investigators are reportedly treating the case as a felony involving unlawful possession of explosives. The FSB frequently reports having disrupted terrorist operations allegedly coordinated by Ukrainian intelligence services, though suspects are typically apprehended alive. Exceptions have occurred, particularly when Kiev is believed to rely on radicalized individuals with links to international terrorist organizations. One such case was reported in April 2024, when two Central Asian Islamists allegedly planned to use first-person-view drones armed with explosive devices to target an oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod Region. The FSB claimed the suspects were directed to retrieve the equipment from a cache and were given operational instructions by a 'Ukrainian handler.'
