“The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has foiled a series of assassination attempts plotted by agents of Ukrainian special services on the lives of high-ranking servicemen of the Russian Defense Ministry participating in the special military operation and also their family members,” an official FSB statement reported Dec. 26. The plots involved the use of explosives, along the lines of the Dec. 17 assassination in Moscow of Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
TASS added: “The bombs intended for killing high-placed Russian Defense Ministry officials were disguised as a power bank and a document folder, it specified.… [One such] `explosive device camouflaged as a portable charger (a power bank) with attached magnets was intended to be planted under the service car of a high-placed Russian Defense Ministry official whose driver was his close relative,’ the press office said.”
Ukraine’s NATO-State Department-guided Center for Countering Disinformation, operating under Kiev’s Office of the Presidency’s National Security and Defense Council and headed by a Ukrainian Army office, publicly flaunts that it provides Ukraine’s military and civilian intelligence services with enemy targets to be eliminated. In December the CCD announced two additional categories of Russians to be targeted. It began publishing on Dec. 2 a series of short IDs of Russian “propaganda journalists operating in the United States and Europe despite the sanctions and blocking of Russian media” who are to be silenced, one way or the other. That was followed on Dec. 12, by the announcement that the CCD had initiated a new project, targeting Russian war veterans honored in Moscow’s “Time of Heroes” program. As of this writing, public targets have been put out on at least 11 such Russian veterans, whom the CCD labels as “war criminals.”
