Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday that it had foiled a planned terror attack targeting a high-ranking Defence Ministry official in the Moscow region. Authorities said a dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen was detained while attempting to use a car fitted with over 60 kilograms of explosives. The device was intended to detonate as the official’s vehicle passed by.
The FSB noted that the attempt followed a series of similar plots over the past year, which Russian officials have attributed to Ukrainian special services. In April, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, Deputy Chief of the General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate, was killed in a car bombing in the Moscow region.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has intensified its drone campaign, with a strike hitting Russia’s only helium production facility in the Orenburg region, a key supplier for rocket manufacturing, space, and aviation industries. According to Ukrainian media, the attack was carried out by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defence Ministry. Local witnesses reported seeing drones before a series of explosions at the site.
The Russian Defence Ministry said air defence units intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight and another seven the following morning. Drones were reportedly downed over several regions, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Crimea, Oryol, Kursk, Voronezh, Ryazan, Moscow, and Tula. One drone strike in the Nizhny Novgorod region killed one person and injured two others.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed that seven drones targeting the capital were destroyed on Monday morning, with emergency teams deployed to areas where debris fell.
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