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The Federal Security Service, a top KGB successor known under
its Russian acronym FSB, said in a statement carried by Russian
news agencies that it had arrested four Russians accused of
making preparations to kill senior Defense Ministry officials.
The FSB said that the suspected organizers of the attacks were
planning to kill one of the senior officers using a remotely
controlled car bomb. It added that another top military official
was to be assassinated by an explosive device hidden in an
envelope. The agency didn't name the military officers who were
targeted in the alleged plot.
The FSB released a video showing the arrest and interrogation of
the suspects, who weren't named.
The statement follows the death of Lt. Gen Igor Kirillov who was
killed on Dec. 17 by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked
outside his apartment building as he left for his office.
Kirillov’s assistant also died in the brazen attack that was
claimed by Ukraine and brought the conflict once again to the
streets of the Russian capital.
The FSB has arrested a suspect, a citizen of the Central Asian
nation of Uzbekistan, and claimed that he said that he had been
recruited by Ukrainian special services.
Kirillov, 54, was the chief of Russia’s Radiation, Biological
and Chemical Protection Forces. These special troops are tasked
with protecting the military from the enemy’s use of nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons and ensuring operations in a
contaminated environment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described Kirillov’s killing as
a “major blunder” by Russia’s security agencies, noting they
should learn from it and improve their efficiency.
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