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FSB Agent Caught Red-Handed in Kyiv Trying to Assassinate Ukrainian Intelligence Officer
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Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it detained in Kyiv a suspected Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent who tried to kill an officer of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, according to the Security Service of Ukraine on December 26.
The agency said the suspect was arrested in central Kyiv as he pulled out a pistol and aimed at the intended target inside a venue in the capital. The suspected hitman was a 28-year-old citizen of a Central Asian country, recruited in his home state through Telegram channels while seeking quick earnings.
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According to the SBU, the suspect entered Ukraine posing as a tourist and initially stayed in Pervomaisk in Mykolaiv region, where he bought several smartphones and SIM cards that he regularly changed to communicate covertly with his handler.
The agency said he later traveled to Kyiv, received a photo and approximate locations of the intended target, and retrieved a pistol and ammunition from a cache whose coordinates he received from the handler, with a promised payment of $50,000 and assistance with legalization in a European Union country.
The SBU said investigators notified the suspect of suspicion under articles covering attempted premeditated murder, aiding an aggressor state, and illegal weapons handling, and that he is being held in custody and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property if convicted.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine’s Security Service detained a suspected FSB agent in Dnipropetrovsk who was recruited through a dating app and passed information used to guide Russian artillery and drone strikes on Nikopol.
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