Russia’s security service, the FSB (formerly the KGB), announced on Saturday that it had thwarted an alleged Ukrainian-backed attempt to kill two prominent Russian journalists, Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobcyak, Interfax news agency reported, citing Reuters.

The FSB reports that on Friday it arrested an unspecified number of people who were allegedly conducting reconnaissance near the homes and workplaces of the two journalists.

Reuters notes that this information has not yet been commented on in Ukraine, which previously denied any involvement in the killing of pro-war figures in Russia.

As the Interfax agency reports with reference to the FSB, the detainees allegedly admitted that they were preparing attacks on two women from the Ukrainian side and that they were promised a reward of 1.5 million rubles ($16,620) for each.

Margarita Simonyan, head of the RT public station and a well-known supporter of the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, posted a message on Telegram about the alleged conspiracy, in which she called on the special services: “Work, brothers!”.

Ksenia Sobcyak is also a famous TV presenter who also ran for president in 2018.

Two prominent supporters of the war in Ukraine, journalist Daria Dugina and war blogger Vladlen Tatarskyi, were killed last year in bombings in Russia, killings that Russia blamed on Ukraine, while Kyiv denied it and portrayed the killings as evidence of internal conflicts. Russia.

In May of this year, the famous Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin was injured in an explosion that killed his driver. The investigation reported that the detained suspect admitted that he acted on behalf of Ukraine.

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