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Ukraine Thwarts FSB Assassination Plot Against Defense Company Head

The suspected assassin is a 63-year-old pensioner, tasked by the FSB with placing explosives under the driver's seat of the supposed victim's car, according to the SBU.

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On 26 August, the Ukrainian Security Service announced that it had foiled an attack on a leader of the defence industry, orchestrated by the Russian FSB. An explosive device of one kg of hexogen was neutralized under the...

The National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) thwarted a plot by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to assassinate the head of a defense industry company operating in Kiev, the SBU announced.

·Tallinn, Estonia
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Orders are given at the highest level. The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) is behind sabotage, assassination attempts, and bombings of military facilities in European Union countries. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing a statement by Andriy Kovalenko, head of the National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation. Who is directly committing sabotage? As noted, several specia…

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The attack was prepared by a 63-year-old pensioner who moved to Kiev province from Lugansk province.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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A terrorist attack against the head of the OPK enterprise was thwarted in Kyiv region, a request for the extradition of the suspect from Poland was initiated - the SBUSBU and the police defused a bomb with 1 kg of hexogen placed under the seat of the official's car. The suspect was detained in Poland.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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LB.ua broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
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