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Russia's Security Service Prevented Ukrainian Assassination of Sputnik Chief Editor Simonyan
Russia's Security Service Prevented Ukrainian Assassination of Sputnik Chief Editor Simonyan
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Russian security forces have prevented an assassination attempt planned by the Ukrainian special services against Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster and Rossiya Segodnya international media group, and prominent Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak.
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"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, prevented the preparation of the assassination of Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT channel and the international information agency Rossiya Segodnya, by the Ukrainian special services," , the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement, adding that "according to the information we have, the assassination of Ksenia Sobchak was also being prepared."Members of a neo-Nazi group, Paragraph-88, who conducted reconnaissance near Simonyan’s and Sobchak’s places of work and residence, were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan Region on Friday, the FSB said.The head of the Russian Union of Journalists, Vladimir Solovyov, told Sputnik it could be a second wave of assassination attempts against Russian journalists.The Russian Union of Journalists head also thanked the Russian law enforcement officers that caught the perpetrators, adding that Kiev has been resorting to intimidation and terror.In April, Russian military reporter Maxim Fomin, known under the name of Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a detonation of an improvised explosive device brought to a cafe in St. Petersburg. Daria Trepova was detained on suspicion of involvement in the explosion. Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the Ukrainian special services and the supporters of Russian non-profit Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, designated extremist organization and foreign agent, banned in Russia) masterminded the terrorist attack.
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Russia's Security Service Prevented Ukrainian Assassination of Sputnik Chief Editor Simonyan
16:05 15.07.2023 (Updated: 22:11 15.07.2023) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian security forces have prevented an assassination attempt planned by the Ukrainian special services against Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster and Rossiya Segodnya international media group, and prominent Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, prevented the preparation of the assassination of Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT channel and the international information agency Rossiya Segodnya, by the Ukrainian special services," , the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement, adding that "according to the information we have, the assassination of Ksenia Sobchak was also being prepared."
Members of a neo-Nazi group, Paragraph-88, who conducted reconnaissance near Simonyan’s and Sobchak’s places of work and residence, were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan Region on Friday, the FSB said.
The head of the Russian Union of Journalists, Vladimir Solovyov, told Sputnik it could be a second wave of assassination attempts against Russian journalists.
"It's dangerous to be a journalist these days. It is always more dangerous for our valiant military correspondents who work on the front line, but now it is dangerous at home. We know that attempts were being prepared last year on both [TV presenter] Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan, as it turns out today, [attempts were being prepared] again, the second wave," he said.
The Russian Union of Journalists head also thanked the Russian law enforcement officers that caught the perpetrators, adding that Kiev has been resorting to intimidation and terror.
In April, Russian military reporter Maxim Fomin, known under the name of Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a detonation of an improvised explosive device brought to a cafe in St. Petersburg. Daria Trepova was detained on suspicion of involvement in the explosion. Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the Ukrainian special services and the supporters of Russian non-profit Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, designated extremist organization and foreign agent, banned in Russia) masterminded the terrorist attack.
