Russia’s Federal Security Service says it has foiled a plot against the leaders of the Russian-imposed government in Crimea, a peninsula that the Russian Federation allegedly annexed in 2014, Reuters reports.

According to the Russian news agency TASS, the FSB claims that one of the architects of the conspiracy is Roman Mashovets, the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, without providing evidence.

“It was established that the direct organizer of the terrorist attacks and the coordinator of the preparation for the assassination of high-ranking officials is a close associate of the head of the Main Directorate of the State Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov, reserve. the active military intelligence officer Roman Masovets, who has held the position of deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky since 2020,” the SFS reported.

The FSB claims that it has detained six citizens with dual citizenship – Russian and Ukrainian, as well as a citizen of Ukraine of Bulgarian origin, recruited by Roman Masovets.

They were “members of the intelligence agency group of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, which operated in Crimea.”

“Participants of the intelligence and search group that operated in Crimea – six citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as one citizen of Ukraine and Bulgaria, involved in the transportation of explosives and components of explosive devices – were detained. The supply channel of British explosives and components of explosive devices from Bulgaria through Turkey and Georgia to Russia under the pretext of supplying electric stoves has been blocked,” the FSB said in a statement.

TASS writes that the objects of the conspiracy were the head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Serhiy Aksyonov, the speaker of the Crimean parliament Volodymyr Konstantinov and the mayor of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko.

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