President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had foiled attacks by a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group against Russian journalists.
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The president affirmed during a meeting with the Attorney General’s Office that: “This morning, the Federal Security Service dismantled a terrorist group that was planning to attack and assassinate a well-known Russian television journalist.”
In this sense, the head of the Kremlin stated that the United States supported the terrorist attempts through the advice of the US Central Intelligence Agency to the Ukrainian security services.
Russian Federal Security Service dismantled a plan to assassinate Russian journalists, including the director of the RT group Margarita Simonián commissioned by the Ukrainian secret service. It was planned by neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialism / White Power, banned in Russia pic.twitter.com/8W3nvPCXPj
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April 25, 2022
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For their part, the FSB authorities reported that “a group of members of the neo-Nazi terrorist organization banned in Russia National Socialism/White Power” were arrested.
In line with this, the extremists “planned, following instructions from the Security Service of Ukraine, to assassinate a public figure, the well-known journalist Vladimir Soloviov”. In addition, the director of Russia Today and Sputnik, Margaret Simonian.
An explosive weapon, seven firearms, eight Molotov cocktails, about a thousand ammunition, as well as false identification documents and supremacist literature were seized from the defendants.
The Russian media has been censored on various news platforms since the start of the special military operation. From this, President Putin stated that: “the defeat in the field of information passed to terror, to the preparation of assassinations of Russian journalists”.
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