This past Friday, the car belonging to former SBU Lt. Col. Vasily Prozorov exploded in Moscow while he was inside the vehicle. Prozorov survived, with minor injures, and blamed the assassination attempt on Ukrainian intelligence.
"Russia's FSB detained a citizen of Russia and Moldova, born in 1994, who delivered components of a radio-controlled explosive device to Russia from abroad as a courier, which he used on April 12, 2024 in Moscow, at the instructions of the Ukrainian Security Service head Vasyl Malyuk, to blow up the car of a Russian national, an ex-employee of the Ukrainian special service," the statement said.
The components of the explosive device were camouflaged into manicure tools and hair care products and were sent via a private transport company to the Moscow Region from Warsaw, the statement also said, adding that the courier delivered the parcel by car to Moscow after receiving the cargo in Lithuania.