A woman who allegedly worked for Kiev to impress an online romantic interest is facing terrorism and treason charges
A Russian woman in her mid-20s has been accused of terrorism and treason after knowingly taking part in a conspiracy to assassinate a senior military official in Moscow, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday.
The suspect was allegedly driven to work for the Ukrainian special services by a romantic relationship with a Ukrainian man, who investigators believe feigned feelings for the young woman in order to recruit her into Kiev’s service.
She said that since contacting her online flame in 2024, she carried out several missions. These allegedly included collecting IP addresses of public WiFi routers in St. Petersburg and surveilling the car of a person she was told was guilty of war crimes and marked for assassination.
Her final task before being evacuated to Ukraine was to rent an apartment in the Russian capital, which she did in March. She placed cameras there that Ukrainian agents used for remote surveillance of the target and stockpiled supplies that the intended assassin would have used after her departure from Russia. The FSB said she was arrested before she could fly to Türkiye.
The agency claimed that the thwarted assassination plot was part of a series of attacks that Ukrainian special services were planning “with direct involvement of Western handlers.” The planned attacks on military infrastructure, a defense plant, and Defense Ministry employees would have been “unprecedented in scale and severity of threat,” the FSB said.
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Investigators warned that people who cooperate with Kiev in hopes of being rewarded and given a new life in Ukraine are putting their own lives at risk. Their handlers would rather eliminate witnesses – as allegedly happened with Anastasia Berezovskaya, the primary suspect in last week’s bombing attack on a Ukrainian-born millionaire in Monaco – the Russian authorities warned.
Berezovskaya was allegedly killed by her handlers, one of whom is a military intelligence officer, after returning to Ukraine, the national police reported this week. Kiev claims that the Ukrainian agent went rogue. Moscow said the incident in Monaco demonstrates the terrorist nature of the “Kiev regime.”
July 9, 2026 at 01:03PM
RT