Russia’s Federal Security Service said it had foiled a plot to assassinate a senior law enforcement official using a bomb hidden in an electric scooter.
The scooter was found outside a Moscow business center with a rigged power bank in its storage compartment, the FSB said. Investigators recovered a homemade explosive device containing 1.5 kilograms of plastic explosive and shrapnel in the form of bolts and nuts, controlled via a WiFi relay from a “smart home” system and a 4G modem.
Ukraine’s Security Service had planned the attack and intended to detonate the device remotely, the FSB said. The agency did not identify the intended target or disclose the exact location where the scooter was found.
The FSB said the same method was used in the December 2024 killing of Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear, chemical, and biological defense forces, who died when a bomb planted under an electric scooter parked outside his home exploded.
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