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| FSB: Ukrainian special services involved in murder of Stavropol vice-mayor Gurtsiev |
| 2025-08-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The man who committed the explosion in the city of Stavropol, which killed the city's deputy mayor Zaur Gurtsiev, acted under the influence of the Ukrainian special services. This was reported by the Federal Security Service. A Russian man named Penkov fell victim to telephone scammers from Ukraine and transferred his money to them. After that, he began to receive calls from FSB representatives, who threatened him by saying that the transferred funds were used to sponsor the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which a criminal case was opened against the man. “In order to avoid criminal liability, the curator informed Penkov that he needed to carry out a number of instructions to whitewash the crime he had committed,” TASS quoted an FSB representative as saying. Following the instructions of his Ukrainian handlers, on May 28 he blew up the deputy mayor, hiding the explosive device in his chest bag. At the same time, the perpetrator himself thought that there was a dictaphone in it. |
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