By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The director of Russia’s most powerful security agency said on Tuesday that he believed Ukraine, along with the United States and Britain, were involved in the attack on a concert hall just outside Moscow that killed at least 139 people. Ukraine, which has repeatedly denied any link with Friday’s attack, […]
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Putin says gunmen who attacked Moscow concert hall tried to escape to Ukraine
Russian authorities arrested the four men suspected of carrying out the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday during an address to the nation. He claimed they were captured while fleeing to Ukraine. Kyiv strongly denied any involvement in Friday’s attack on the […]
Conscripts thrown into Ukraine’s battlefields by FSB
Russian authorities are preparing to deploy conscripts for combat roles in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories, National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Feb. 12. The selection process for these combat units will be managed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), utilizing its regional departments to identify candidates through military enlistment offices for service in special units. […]
SBU names ex-official as suspect in leading Melitopol FSB branch, overseeing torture of locals
Ukraine’s SBU security service has pressed new charges in absentia against Serhiy Handzha, a former high-ranking SBU official under Viktor Yanukovych, the special service reported on Dec. 9. According to the investigation, after the start of the full-scale invasion, he headed the Russian Federal Security Service unit in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhya Oblast. […]
Another FSB agent unmasked after installing surveillance cameras near Mykolaiv seaport
Ukraine’s SBU security service exposed an agent of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Mykolaiv, who was gathering information about the Ukrainian military near the Black Sea, the SBU reported on Telegram. He collected data on Ukrainian naval ships and vessels of the merchant fleet that export agricultural products. Read also: At least 20 buildings […]
Ukrainian-born advisor to far-right German AfD lawmaker allegedly FSB agent
Vladimir Sergienko, a Ukrainian-born advisor to a German lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is allegedly working with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to an investigation released on Feb. 1 by the independent Russian media outlet The Insider. Founded in 2013, AfD is increasingly gaining ground in Germany, becoming one of […]
Kremlin sends FSB agents to search for Ukrainian partisans in Kherson Oblast, Kyiv says
Russia has dispatched Federal Security Service (FSB) agents to temporarily occupied areas of Kherson Oblast to search for Ukrainian partisans, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported on Jan. 7. The report indicates that Russian forces are trying to strengthen their influence in Kherson Oblast by sending so-called “ideologists” there. Read also: Foreign Ministry condemns Kremlin decree […]