Moscow, Feb 8, (dpa/GNA) – The FSB, Russia’s domestic secret service, said on Friday that it had detained four women in Russia and on the annexed peninsula of Crimea, accusing them of working with Ukraine.
The agency said they were recruited by Ukrainian secret services, to carry out attacks on high-ranking officers of the Russian Defence Ministry and on fuel and energy sector targets.
The women allegedly received weapons training in Ukraine, the surveillance agency said.
Information repeatedly published by the FSB about allegedly uncovered Ukrainian terrorist plans or sabotage, cannot be independently verified.
Explosives, electronic detonators, instructions for building bombs and means of communication to Kiev were seized at the women’s places of residence, the FSB said.
They face up to 30 years in prison.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022, there have been cases in Russia of sabotage on railway lines and other objects, but also targeted assassinations of war supporters.
GNA