Get you up to speed: Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian plot involving explosive insoles for soldiers
Russia’s FSB claims to have impounded hundreds of booby-trapped boot insoles intended for Vladimir Putin’s soldiers. A foreign national born in 1994 has been detained for allegedly smuggling these explosives into Russia from Poland, organised by Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed that a foreign national from Tajikistan was detained for smuggling explosives into the country, allegedly organised by Ukrainian intelligence agencies. According to the FSB, the explosives were hidden in heated boot insoles, designed to detonate and cause severe injuries to soldiers during combat.
The FSB has detained a foreign national born in 1994, from Tajikistan, for involvement in smuggling explosives from Poland to Russia, allegedly organised by Ukrainian intelligence agencies. This situation follows ongoing missile and drone strikes from Russia against Ukraine, with NATO responding by scrambling warplanes in Romania.
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Russia has impounded hundreds of booby-trapped boot insoles intended for Vladimir Putin’s foot soldiers, the country’s spy agency has claimed.
The ‘heated’ insoles, intended for use in cold weather, were rigged with enough explosives to blow off a victim’s limbs, the FSB has alleged.
Russian counterintelligence has blamed Ukrainian secret services for the ploy, which would have injured more than 500 soldiers.
The FSB said: ‘A foreign national born in 1994 has been detained in Russia. He was involved in the smuggling of weapons to Russia from Poland through Belarus, organised by Ukrainian intelligence agencies.’
The explosives in each pair of insoles weighed 1.5 grams and would have detonated when the insoles were connected to a power source.
‘They are designed to sever a part of a serviceman’s limb when they are used during combat missions,’ the FSB added, saying the soles were sent as part of ‘humanitarian aid’.
Each sole contained 1.5grams of explosive powder (Picture: E2W)
The man the FSB has detained is from Tajikistan, the agency said, and was acting as a courier for the explosives.
It comes as earlier today, Vladimir Putin staged massive new strikes on Ukraine, forcing NATO to scramble warplanes in two allied countries.
Russia hit back with missiles and drone strikes on civilians after suffering critical damage to its energy supplies and exports.
Putin’s largest port, Primorsk, is still in flames today after a strike by Ukraine yesterday, disabling a key export port on the Baltic Sea.
Earlier, two F-16 supersonic multirole fourth-generation fighters were scrambled in the fellow NATO state Romania as Russian drones attacked Ukraine on the bank of the River Danube.
Russia unleashed at least 34 missiles, with 25 downed by air defences. A total of 426 drones attacked Ukraine, with 365 shot down or disrupted.
The explosives were inside of the soldiers’ insoles (Picture: E2W)
Back home in Russia, Putin is continuing his crackdown on those who speak out against him.
This weekend, a pro-Kremlin lawyer and propagandist who suddenly turned on Vladimir Putin was admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
TV pundit Ilya Remeslo, 42, was previously a staunch Putin supporter and endorser of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
But earlier this week, he posted a series of messages on the messaging website Telegram, describing him as a ‘war criminal, liar, and thief’, and forecast a coup would topple him this year.
Hours later, Remeslo was reportedly admitted to a psychiatric facility in St Petersburg. Friends have said they have been unable to reach him at the Skvortsov-Stepanov City Psychiatric Hospital in the city of St. Petersburg.
He was reportedly sent to a ward for patients suffering from ‘delusions, thought disorders, and incoherent speech’.
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