Russian security forces have prevented an assassination attempt planned by the Ukrainian special services against Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster and Rossiya Segodnya international media group, and prominent Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, prevented the preparation of the assassination of Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT channel and the international information agency Rossiya Segodnya, by the Ukrainian special services," the FSB said in a statement, adding that "according to the information we have, the assassination of Ksenia Sobchak was also being prepared."
Members of a neo-Nazi group, Paragraph-88, who conducted reconnaissance near Simonyan's and Sobchak's places of work and residence, were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan Region on Friday, the FSB said.
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Покушение на главреда RT Маргариту Симоньян и журналистку Ксению Собчак готовилось по заданию Службы безопасности Украины, подтвердили задержанные, сообщает Федеральная служба безопасности России.
ReplyDeleteКак утверждается, за каждое убийство им обещали заплатить 1,5 миллиона рублей.
Ранее ФСБ сообщила о задержании в Москве и Рязанской области членов неонацистской группировки, которые готовили убийства двух журналисток.
The Ukrainian security services’ assassination attempt on Editor-in-Chief of the RT television news network Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak again demonstrates the Kiev regime’s terrorist nature, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Saturday.
ReplyDelete"The recent developments once again show the terrorist nature of [Ukrainian President] Vladimir Zelensky’s regime that is responsible for a string of terrorist attacks," the diplomat said.
According to Zakharova, Russia is "unlikely to expect" a reaction from international organizations.