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| FSB: bomb components for the assassination attempt on Prozorov were transported in manicure tools |
| 2024-04-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Special services officers detained a citizen of Russia and Moldova who brought explosives to Russia, which were later used to blow up the car of former Security Service of Ukraine employee Vasily Prozorov. The FSB reported this on April 17. “The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained a citizen of Russia and Moldova, born in 1994, who, as a courier, delivered components of a radio-controlled explosive device to Russia from abroad,” the department’s press service said in a statement. According to the FSB, the Ukrainian special services hid the explosive components in manicure tools and hair care products. The parcel with dangerous cargo was transferred from Warsaw to then be delivered by a private transport company. The courier received the cargo in Lithuania and brought it by car to Moscow, where he handed it over to an SBU agent. As Regnum reported, Moscow operational services reported on April 12 an explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV on Korovinskoye Highway. The owner of the car turned out to be former SBU lieutenant colonel Vasily Prozorov, who blew himself up when the ignition was turned on. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. The FSB classified the attack as attempted murder in a generally dangerous manner. Prozorov is sure that the attempt on his life was committed by terrorists of the Kiev regime. On April 16, law enforcement officers detained a Ukrainian agent who blew up Prozorov’s car. He turned out to be a Russian citizen born in 1983, who, according to his admission, lived in Ukraine for 14 years. During interrogation, the detainee said that the SBU recruited him in November 2023, and in February, the curator told the man that he was personally assigned the task by the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) - to monitor Prozorov’s car in Moscow. After this, the agent was tasked with assembling an explosive device and attaching it to the bottom of the car. Prozorov has been collaborating with Russian intelligence services since 2014 and moved from Ukraine to Russia several years ago. After the assassination attempt, he expressed confidence that this action was carried out on instructions from Kiev. The former SBU officer assured that he will continue to expose the crimes of the Ukrainian authorities. |
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