Russia arrests man over 'Ukraine-backed' car bombing of double agent in Moscow


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  • Tuesday, 16 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Cars drive past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russia, November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service said on Tuesday it had detained a man it said had tried to kill an ex-employee of Ukraine's main security service in Moscow last week with a car bomb on Kyiv's orders.

A powerful explosion ripped through a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado belonging to Vasily Prozorov, a former Lieutenant-Colonel in Ukraine's SBU security service, on April 12, leaving Prozorov with wounds to his legs and arms.

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