Russia’s FSB Says It Thwarted Bomb Plot Targeting Russian Military Officer, Blogger

Russian authorities say they’ve stopped multiple assassination plots after Russian Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed outside his Moscow home on Dec. 17.

A police car goes past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

Russian authorities have said they’ve stopped a plot to assassinate a high-ranking Russian military officer and to kill a military blogger who has been covering the ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine.

In a press statement on Dec. 28, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said they thwarted the assassination plot after uncovering communications on the Telegram instant messaging platform between a Russian national and a member of Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency. Russian authorities have since arrested the Russian national.