MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. If the West remains mum following the assassination attempt on Russian billionaire and Tsargrad group CEO Konstantin Malofeev, this would mean that it supports such crimes, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Monday.

"The silence of the Western regimes, which are usually so hyperactive about persecution of journalists, following the attempted murder of the Tsargrad television channel’s founder, Konstantin Malofeev, would point to their tacit involvement in supporting such crimes, as well as ideological backing for the extremist actions of the Kiev gangsters," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said earlier that it had thwarted an assassination attempt on Malofeev. According to the FSB, the crime was masterminded by Denis Kapustin, born in 1984, a Russian national who is the founder and a leader of the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps. He was plotting to plant a makeshift explosive device under Malofeev’s car.

Similar tactics were used by agents of the Ukrainian special services to organize the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, the FSB noted.

Malofeev said after the failed assassination attempt that he had not been injured.

Criminal charges have been brought against Kapustin under articles 205 ("Terrorist Act"), 205.4 ("Participation in the Activities of a Terrorist Organization") and 222.1 ("Illegal Trafficking in Explosive Devices") of the Russian Criminal Code.