FSB says it detained a woman in Moscow on suspicion of working for Ukrainian intelligence. It says she plotted to blow up a security officer’s car.
Russia’s Federal Security Service detained a Russian woman born in 1996 in Moscow, accusing her of trying to bomb a security officer’s car on assignment from Ukrainian intelligence, the FSB’s Public Relations Center announced.
The woman, who has since been arrested, has not been publicly identified, and the FSB provided no details about her background beyond her citizenship and year of birth. According to the agency, she allegedly contacted Ukrainian intelligence herself and offered to cooperate in exchange for “help relocating permanently to one of the European Union countries.”
Before carrying out the assignment, she traveled to Ukraine for “instruction in carrying out sabotage and terrorist activity,” the FSB stated, then returned to Russia. She later retrieved an explosive device from a hiding spot on the outskirts of Samara and traveled to Moscow to carry out the bombing, according to the agency. She was detained while planting the device under the car.
Authorities have opened a criminal case on charges of attempted terrorism and illegal handling of explosives, and the FSB declared it also plans to charge her with treason.
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