Suspects in preparing terrorist attacks against military personnel have been detained in Kuban and Moscow.

The FSB reported the arrest of two individuals suspected of preparing a terrorist attack against a high-ranking Defense Ministry officer. One of the suspects was detained in the Krasnodar region, the other, a native of the Rostov region, was in Moscow.

Russian security forces reported on July 9 about the arrest of two Russian citizens suspected of preparing terrorist attacks. According to the FSB, they thwarted an "unprecedented series" of attacks on Russian military personnel: the assassination was planned using drones with the "direct involvement of Western curators."

One of the suspects, a 48-year-old man, was detained in the Krasnodar region. He previously lived in Ukraine and was allegedly recruited there under the threat of criminal prosecution against his wife. Through Moldova and Armenia, the man arrived in Mineralnye Vody on a mission from Ukrainian special services, and then rented an apartment in Moscow to conduct video surveillance of the Defense Ministry officer's apartment. It was assumed that the military would be attacked by a drone with explosives as he entered his building.

"A homemade explosive device weighing 600 grams of explosive material and a phone containing correspondence with a curator confirming the preparation of the military's assassination, as well as video cameras and camouflage equipment, were seized," the FSB's website stated.

During interrogation, the detained man said that he was instructed to "go to Krasnodar and pick up the explosive device for the drone," and then "return to Ukraine and undergo additional training," according to a video recording published by TASS.

A 25-year-old woman, a native of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region, was also detained in Moscow on suspicion of attempting to attack military personnel. According to operational video from the FSB, she was arrested while walking her dog.

During interrogation, the detained woman stated that in 2024 she communicated with her acquaintance Yaroslav Khmelnytsky. He allegedly informed her that he was helping Ukrainian special services, after which she also "expressed a desire to help." Then, via WhatsApp, she was contacted by a certain coordinator who initially instructed her to find out the IP addresses of Wi-Fi networks in several establishments in central St. Petersburg, and later, in the fall of 2025, to monitor the military's vehicle.

In March 2026, the woman rented an apartment in Moscow and installed surveillance cameras there. According to the FSB, this way surveillance was conducted from this apartment over the apartment and car of the Russian officer, with the camera signal being transmitted to Ukraine. Cameras, camouflage props, and smartphones with correspondence were seized from the apartment. During interrogation, the detained woman said that she did not know exactly who she was monitoring, but suspected that the purpose of these actions was "his elimination."

The detained native of the Rostov region is Valeria Naryzhna, who has been in a pre-trial detention center for about a month, "Mediazona" found out*. Her data was added to the terrorist registry of Rosfinmonitoring on July 7, according to a message from a Telegram bot tracking updates in the list.

* included in the Russian registry of foreign agents.

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