The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has a dedicated assassination program responsible for taking out Russian “collaborators,” the former head of the agency, Valentin Nalivaichenko, has claimed in an interview with The Economist. According to the former official, the special SBU division dates back to at least 2015 and was …
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There are fates worse than death, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan told journalists on Saturday in the wake of a disrupted attempt on her life by a neo-Nazi group. The journalist said that she was not afraid of dying for her homeland and wished her assassination plotters understood the error of …
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A senior member of the Russian diplomatic mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been hospitalised, Moscow’s embassy in Bangui confirmed to Russian media, after a reported parcel bomb explosion. The official was identified as Dmitry Sytyy, who heads the local branch of the “Russian House”, a network of …
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Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner was threatened by an armed person near her home in Buenos Aires, with a gunman seen pointing a firearm at the VP’s face before she was whisked away to safety. No shots were fired and the official was not injured. The apparent attempt on Kirchner’s …
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) identified a Ukrainian man named Bogdan Tsyganenko as an accomplice in the plot to murder Russian journalist and political activist Darya Dugina.Tsyganenko helped the primary suspect, Natalya Vovk, obtain a fake Kazakhstani passport and assemble an improvised explosive device, which she later used to kill …
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A blast that claimed the life of Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, was caused by a bomb that had been attached to the underside on the driver’s side of her SUV, investigators said on Sunday. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the explosive device ripped …
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A man who told the police he was seeking to kill US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC on Wednesday. Nicholas Roske had a gun and other weapons in his bag and told police he targeted the conservative justice out of anger …
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Russia has no plans to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or to remove him from power, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has stated. “No, this is not true,” Peskov replied, when asked on Wednesday to comment on speculations that Moscow wanted Zelensky dead, during an interview French broadcaster LCI. He …
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American lawmakers from across the political spectrum have criticized their colleague’s statements as dangerous and unhinged, after Graham claimed “the only way” to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to kill President Vladimir Putin. On Thursday, US Senator Lindsey Graham invoked the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar and the …
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham pleaded on Thursday for “somebody in Russia” to “step up to the plate” and assassinate President Vladimir Putin, and who would thus do the country and the world “a great service.” The Russian ambassador to Washington has rebuked the remarks, calling them “unacceptable and outrageous.” The …
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