The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), police and national guard in Moscow have been raised to a high alert level due to intelligence information about a threat of a sabotage attack from Ukraine, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, quoted by BTA.
During the four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, both sides are carrying out attacks deep behind the front lines, Reuters reports. They use drones and sabotage units to carry out assassinations and attack critical infrastructure.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet KGB, has intelligence that Ukraine is planning acts of sabotage and attacks against "government officials, Russian Defense Ministry servicemen, and police officers."
The deputy head of Russian military intelligence, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, was shot three times in February with a silenced Makarov pistol in an apartment building in northern Moscow. He survived the attack.