Russia arrests German woman over alleged Ukraine bomb plot

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the detention of a German national in the southern city of Pyatigorsk, accusing her of plotting a terrorist act against a law enforcement facility in the Stavropol region on behalf of Ukraine. According to the FSB's statement, the woman, born in 1969, was allegedly drawn into the plot by a citizen of a Central Asian country, acting under orders from Kyiv.

The FSB claims the woman was found with an improvised explosive device, equivalent to 1.5 kilograms of TNT, which was intended for remote detonation. The agency asserts that the attack was thwarted through electronic jamming. A second individual, described as a man from an unidentified Central Asian state born in 1997 and a "supporter of radical ideology," was reportedly arrested near the target site.

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prevented a terrorist attack planned by the Kyiv regime against a law enforcement facility in the Stavropol region, involving a German citizen born in 1969

Both individuals now face potential life sentences on terrorism charges. The FSB has previously accused Ukraine of collaborating with fundamentalist groups to carry out attacks within Russia, though often without providing concrete evidence. This latest accusation comes amid ongoing hostilities and a history of such claims, which Kyiv consistently denies. The German and Ukrainian governments have not yet issued immediate responses to these allegations.

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a supporter of radical ideology