Ukraine sends female powerlifting champion behind enemy lines to assassinate top official This is the chilling moment a top Ukrainian powerlifting champion is interviewed by Russian police after she was accused of going behind enemy lines in Russia in a bid to assassinate a top official.
“In 2024, I arrived in Russia and, on the instructions of Ukrainian special services, was [ordered] to commit a terrorist act against a high-ranking serviceman from the Russian Defence Ministry.” All four women detained by the FSB had been trained “in handling firearms and bombs, drone control and outdoor surveillance”, said the FSB.
It comes after Vladimir Putin's "death plane" was seen delivering 50 coffins of Russian soliders killed in the Ukraine war as they return home to their relatives.
She had a Russian passport and Kyiv used this to deploy her to seek to assassinate a leading military target, according to the FSB.
It takes place at the city’s airport deep in the night, so the unloading of wooden coffins into three trucks on the snow-caked tarmac in minus 30C is invisible to Putin’s people.
