The Russian Federal Security Service announced the elimination of an agent belonging to the Ukrainian military intelligence who arrived in Russia from Lithuania.
The agent is a Russian citizen born in 1976 and has been planning a series of terrorist attacks on vital Russian installations, including military and energy facilities.
The FSB statement said the person was operating under the direct direction of Ukrainian military intelligence and belonged to a Ukrainian terrorist organization considered banned in Russia.
Security operations revealed that he was trying to transport explosive materials and weapons from a hideout in the Leningrad province, where he intended to use them to carry out a terrorist attack on a gas station in the Tosninsky region of the same province.
The agent was confronted while trying to secretly remove the materials, where he showed armed resistance using firearms, prompting security forces to eliminate him at the site.
It is noteworthy that the agent arrived in the Moscow region in March 2024, and was planning to extract components of explosive devices from hideouts prepared by Ukrainian intelligence to carry out further operations targeting military infrastructure and energy facilities in the Russian capital and its surroundings.
Reports indicate that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has recruited large numbers of Ukrainian citizens heading to Russia since 2014.
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