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FSB Nabs Three in Foiled Ukrainian Electric Scooter Bomb Plot

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday that it had detained three citizens of Ukraine, Moldova and Russia in connection with an attempted terrorist attack in Moscow using a booby-trapped electric scooter.
Sputnik
"The Russian Federal Security Service has detained a citizen of Ukraine, born in 1980, a citizen of Moldova, born in 1991, and a citizen of Russia, born in 2009, as a result of a search for persons involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack in Moscow, which was prevented on April 2, 2026, planned by ... [Ukraine] against a high-ranking law enforcement officer using a booby-trapped electric scooter," the FSB said in a statement.
A Ukrainian military was sent to Moscow to kill a high-ranking Russian serviceman by blowing up an electric scooter at a business center, the statement read, adding that the Moldovan citizen organized an online broadcast of the consequences of the planned bombing for Kiev and the Russian citizen made a video of an electric scooter parking spot in Moscow and forwarded it to his curator.
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