Russian intelligence agency "Blocking the assassination of Ukraine's defense chief"

Russian intelligence says it has blocked a terrorist operation by Ukrainian special operations authorities that tried to assassinate the chief executive of a defense company that supplies the country's Defense Ministry.

Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, said in a statement on the 25th local time that it had detained seven Russians involved in the incident.

Among the detained Russians were three minors involved in monitoring the CEO's vehicle, manufacturing explosive devices and attaching them underneath the car.

The FSB claimed that identification of the seized communications devices revealed that they were ordered by the Ukrainian Special Operations Authority.

They also said they had been involved in Ukrainian-run phone fraud in the past, adding that they had been involved in extorting money by sending fake terrorist threats.

On the 17th, a Russian military fire and discharge defense commander was killed in Moscow by Ukrainian special authorities operations, and Putin called for improvement of the system, pointing out that the intelligence agency's mission was a failure.