A plot to assassinate in Moscow a high-level Russian official was disrupted, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). They announced on Nov. 14 that Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate (HUR), headed by Kirill Budanov, had recruited individuals to blow up a Russian statesman (name not provided) when he visited Moscow’s Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, where he had close relatives.
According to Izvestia, the FSB’s Public Relations Center reported that “a video surveillance camera camouflaged under a vase with flowers with the possibility of remote control and data transmission abroad, which was used in the preparation of a sabotage and terrorist act, were seized.” At least three people were detained, who were described as an illegal migrant from Central Asia and two people with drug addiction and criminal records. Confirmation of the plan of attack were evidenced by communications between them and an HUR employee, via WhatsApp messenger and Signal.
