He Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia announced this Saturday that it has thwarted an attack against the director of the RT chain, Margaret Simonyanwhich had been commissioned by the Ukrainian security services. According to the FSB statement, quoted by the TASS agency, another attack was being prepared against the journalist Ksenia Sobchak.
“The Federal Security Service, together with the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, prevented the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of the murder of Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the channel RT television and the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
According to the available data, the assassination of Ksenia Sobchak was also being prepared,” says the official note. (about $17,000) for each murder.” The suspects were arrested this Friday in Moscow and the Ryazan region and have already confessed their guilt, the note added. tv presenter Russian Vladimir Soloviov.