Russia’s FSB says it foiled a 35-drone attack near Moscow and blames Ukrainian intelligence — and a rapper living in the U.S.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had thwarted a large-scale drone attack on a strategic facility “in a residential area of the Moscow region,” the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

The FSB said Ukraine’s Security Service planned the attack and that 35 drones were to be launched remotely from a hangar next to the facility. The drones were allegedly delivered to the Moscow region from Bratislava, Slovakia, by way of Belarus, disguised as a shipment of Spanish ceramic tiles.

A Russian citizen who had rented the hangar to store the drones was killed in a shootout during the arrests, the FSB said. The suspected attacker, whose citizenship was not disclosed, was detained.

The FSB said Ukrainian rapper Albert Vasilyev, who performs as Kyivstoner, was involved in organizing the attack. It did not say what his role was.

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Vasilyev responded to the FSB’s press release on his Instagram: “What the fuck?!”

Vasilyev is best known as a member of the group Griby (“Mushrooms”), which he left in 2017. After the war began, he moved from Kyiv to the United States. His wife said that he gives financial support to the Ukrainian army. In 2025, he gave an interview to the Russian journalist Yury Dud in which he criticized “repression by the TRCs” — Ukraine’s territorial recruitment centers — and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, among other things.