Detained ‘Neo-Nazis’ also planned to kill Ksenia Sobchak, another prominent female journalist.
July 15, 2023
Russian law enforcement has thwarted assassination attempts on RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak, which were prepared by Ukrainian intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced.
Those detained were caught carrying out reconnaissance on Friday in Moscow and the Ryazan region.
In a statement on Saturday, the agency said that together with the Interior Ministry and the national Investigative Committee, it had arrested an unspecified number of “neo-Nazis from the Paragraph 88 group who were gathering information at the work and home addresses of Simonyan and Sobchak.”
During the operation, law enforcement personnel seized a Kalashnikov assault rifle and 90 cartridges for it, rubber hoses, knives, brass knuckles and handcuffs, the FSB said. Officials added that “computers with information confirming criminal intentions” were also found.
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