The FSB stated that Ukrainian special services staff deceitfully recruited five pensioners for the murder of Russian military personnel using bombs "camouflaged as household items".
Ukrainian special services staff, posing as Russian security forces, deceitfully and with psychological pressure recruited five Russian pensioners for the murder of Russian military personnel, the FSB reported.
"To carry out terrorist acts, representatives of Ukrainian special services <...> recruited five women of pensionable age, from whom, through calls via foreign internet messengers Telegram and WhatsApp, they deceitfully stole funds stored in banking institutions, as well as those obtained from the forced sale of their housing," the statement said. At the same time, the fraudsters posed as employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, the General and Military Prosecutor's Offices, and other agencies.
After this, the criminals promised the pensioners to return their money after the work was completed. According to the security forces, the elderly people were forced to monitor the residences and parking places of military personnel. They were involved in storing bombs extracted from caches equipped by Ukrainian accomplices, as well as "directly blowing up Russian soldiers".
The FSB noted that the detonation of the bombs would also lead to the death of the perpetrators, accusing Ukrainian special services of using pensioners as "live bombs".
As proof of their version, the security forces published the confessions of the pensioners.