Moscow, Russia. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), police and national guard in Moscow have been placed on higher alert after intelligence indicated a threat of a sabotage attack from Ukraine, state news agency RIA reported on Tuesday.
Higher alert in Moscow
RIA said the FSB had received intelligence that Ukraine planned acts of sabotage and attacks on “government officials, military personnel of the Russian Defence Ministry and law enforcement officers.”
Background of attacks behind front lines
During the four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, both sides have carried out attacks far behind the front lines, using drones and sabotage units to carry out killings and attack critical infrastructure.
Report of attack on GRU official
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, deputy head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times in February with a Makarov pistol equipped with a silencer in an apartment block on the Volokolamsk highway in northern Moscow, and survived, according to the report.
What impact could heightened security measures in Moscow have on daily life for residents?
