Eight arrested for planning attacks in Moscow for Ukraine
Russian authorities have arrested eight individuals accused of planning drone attacks on a defense enterprise, while another foreign national was detained for scouting infrastructure. The incidents occur amid ongoing tensions and stalled negotiations regarding the conflict in Ukraine.
Why it matters
These arrests underscore the ongoing internal security challenges and intelligence operations associated with the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Russian authorities arrested eight people for planning an attack on an enterprise in the Moscow region and separately detained one foreign national for scouting out government buildings and strategic infrastructure, state news agencies reported.
The first arrests concerned eight people who were found to have been using 35 drones equipped with explosives smuggled from the European Union to attack a strategic defence enterprise in the Moscow region, the TASS state news agency said, citing Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
Separately, the RIA state news agency said a foreign national from an unspecified country was detained in the northwest Murmansk region, where he was planning to cross the border into Norway.
The FSB said the individual was suspected of having scouted trains carrying petroleum products at a Moscow railway station, as well as administrative buildings in the Russian capital, according to the RIA state news agency.
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