The Foreign Ministry commented on the SBU’s attempt to organize an assassination attempt on Simonyan and Sobchak
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The intention of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to organize an assassination attempt on Russian journalists Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak is another attempt at a terrorist attack, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“We are talking about another attempt at a terrorist attack on Russian civilians, organized by the Kyiv regime, which is carefully patronized by Western curators,” Zakharova said, her words leads press service of the Foreign Ministry.
She stressed that the plans to organize an assassination attempt on journalists once again prove the “terrorist essence” of the regime of Vladimir Zelensky, who is responsible, among other things, for the murder of journalist Daria Dugina and military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky.
“It is unlikely that we will wait for a reaction from relevant international organizations. Pathological hypocrisy has long been a political tradition of Western liberalism and its unconditional reflex,” Zakharova concluded.
On July 15, the FSB announced that it had prevented the Ukrainian special services from preparing the assassination of the editor-in-chief of the RT television channel, Margarita Simonyan. According to the service, Kyiv also planned the murder of journalist Ksenia Sobchak. Members of the Paragraph-88 neo-Nazi group were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan region, they conducted reconnaissance “at the addresses of work and residence” Simonyan and Sobchak, the report said. For each murder, the detainees, according to them, should have received 1.5 million rubles. A Kalashnikov assault rifle and 90 cartridges for it, knives, brass knuckles, rubber truncheons, handcuffs, chevrons, as well as flags with Nazi symbols and Nazi literature were confiscated from those preparing the assassination.
The investigation today petitioned for the arrest of six people detained in the case of preparing an assassination attempt.
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