SIMFEROPOL, December 26. /TASS/. Ukrainian agents attempted to hand over a booby-trapped document in an illuminated frame to Mikhail Filippov, the head of the Archangel volunteer project, but the attack was foiled and the perpetrator was detained, the project's curator Vitaly Romanov told TASS.
The All-Russian Archangel Project was launched in 2022 thanks to the efforts of a group of enthusiasts shortly after the beginning of the special military operation. The goal of the project is to train servicemen in the use of drones, as well as to develop and test modern drone systems.
"In Moscow, special services officers thwarted a terrorist attack. On December 22, [Ukrainian agents] tried to give Filippov a booby-trapped diploma in a frame with illumination. The Russian special services supervised everything. The courier and the executor were detained immediately," Romanov said.
He noted that the bomb was defused, and no one was injured.
On December 25, the press office of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that a number of attempts by Ukrainian agents against high-ranking employees of the Defense Ministry in Moscow, who were taking part in the special military operation, and members of their families had been thwarted. As a result of the measures taken, four Russian citizens involved in the preparation of the assassination attempts were detained. According to the FSB, the bombs were disguised as a power supply unit and a folder containing documents.
The FSB has opened a criminal case against the perpetrators and planners. Depending on the role of each detainee, they face charges of illegal trafficking in explosives and explosive devices, preparation of terrorist acts, and treason, which is punishable in Russia by up to life imprisonment.