JAKARTA - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled a massive drone attack on strategic facilities in residential areas in the Moscow Region, the FSB Public Relations Office reported.
"During the counter-operation against the Ukrainian security service, the FSB has prevented a terrorist attack planned by the Ukrainian Security Service against a strategic company in a residential area in the Moscow Region. The attack involved the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which had been illegally brought into Russia," the FSB's Public Relations Office said, launching TASS (14/7).
"A special operation to thwart a terrorist attack began with intelligence information about the delivery of a cargo containing weapons along the route Bratislava (Slovakia) - Siedlce (Poland) - Brest (Belarus) - Moscow Region, which was organized by the Ukrainian Security Service with the help of European security services," the FSB press office added.
Furthermore, the Ukrainian Security Service plans to deploy 35 remote-controlled FPV drones, equipped with Canadian control systems resistant to electronic warfare, from a rented hangar located next to the facility that is the target.
"After the enemy launched the drone, all the terrorist weapons were neutralized by the FSB special unit, which carried out the operation. The FSB carried out the operation, ensuring the safety of the facility that was the target, civilians, and military personnel," the FSB said.
Previously, FSB officers detected and began monitoring the shipment of Spanish ceramic tiles containing 35 FPV drones disguised as combat loads of foreign explosives. The initial assembly and configuration of the UAV before its delivery to Russia was carried out in Kyiv.
"Explosive cargo, which had been transported through a foreign country, was stored in a rented hangar located near the facility that was the target. To conceal its commercial use, Ukrainian security officers ordered construction and finishing materials online to be delivered to the hangar," the FSB Public Relations Office reported.
According to the FSB, a Russian citizen recruited by the opposing party in exchange for money rented the building and received a delivery of goods.
Furthermore, it was explained that Ukraine recruited two Moldovan citizens, Victor Pirlog, born in 1986, and Aurel Kalos, born in 1995, who had undergone special training, to prepare hangars for the deployment of UAVs. After completing their work under the supervision of their handlers, they left Russia.
According to the FSB, the Ukrainian side recruited a former member of an ethnic organized crime group, who had previously served a long sentence for serious crimes, through a terrorist organization banned in Russia to carry out the attack. In 2022, he signed a contract with the Wagner Private Military Company, and after taking part in special military operations, he was granted amnesty, and in 2023, he was granted Russian citizenship.
"Following the instructions of his controllers, he assembled and activated the drone, established a channel of communication with a foreign operator, and then left the scene, waiting at a designated location for an evacuation group that would take him to a safe house and then transport him to Ukraine to participate in hostilities against Russia," the FSB's Public Relations Office reported.
The FSB has detained him, and he has admitted to acting in Ukraine's interests.
"An accomplice, who rented a hangar, received dangerous cargo and placed construction materials used to disguise the true purpose of the criminals, resisting arrest with violence and being disabled by return fire," the FSB added.
The FSB noted that the Ukrainian Security Service also recruited minors aged 13 to 16 years old to perform certain tasks, including activating illegally purchased SIM cards used to control drones.
"It has also been established that Albert Victorovich Vasiliev, a citizen of Ukraine and the United States, born in 1991, a vlogger, rapper, and Ukrainian film actor, who uses the pseudonym 'Kyivstoner' (Kievstoner), is also involved in organizing terrorist attacks and coordinating the activities of his accomplices under the protection of the Ukrainian Security Service."
The FSB noted that he was also involved in drug trafficking and currently lives in EU countries such as Spain and Slovakia.
The Russian FSB Investigative Department has opened and is conducting a criminal investigation under Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code. The FSB reminds that, according to the notes on Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code, a person involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack is exempt from criminal liability if they help prevent it by immediately warning the authorities or in other ways and if they do not commit other crimes.
According to Article 31 of the Russian Criminal Code, a person is not held criminally responsible for an offense if they voluntarily stop its implementation.
The thwarted terrorist attack in the Moscow Region was part of an unprecedented wave of sabotage-related incidents, which were prepared by the Ukrainian Security Service using UAVs, but were successfully prevented by the FSB.
Previously, the FSB foiled assassination attempts on two senior officers of the Ministry of Defense in the Moscow Region, and foiled coordinated drone attacks on military airfields such as Rostov-Tsentralny in the city of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, Ukrainka in the Far Eastern Amur Region, and Shagol in the Ural Region Chelyabinsk.
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