Russia’s FSB said a Ukrainian agent was shot dead while resisting arrest after allegedly plotting terrorist attacks inside Russia. The suspect, based in Kaluga, was accused of preparing bombings targeting a gas storage facility and a defense plant parking area.

Russia's FSB said Laurent Vinatier was freed in exchange for Daniil Kasatkin, a Russian who was wanted in the United States for alleged involvement in ransomware attacks.

Russia has expelled a British Embassy employee, alleging espionage, prompting a warning of reciprocal action from Moscow amid tensions with the UK.

Russian security services announced that they have prevented a planned attack in St. Petersburg targeting an employee linked to the country’s defence industry.

Russia has freed French researcher Laurent Vinatier, who was serving a three-year prison sentence, in exchange for the release by France of a jailed Russian, state media reported on Thursday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has foiled a planned terrorist attack on a key railway bridge in the Perm region, allegedly linked to Ukrainian intelligence. Authorities detained a local resident accused of being manipulated through a phone scam into assembling an improvised explosive device.

The victim of Ukrainian fraudsters planned to blow up the Chusovsky railway bridge of the Sverdlovsk Railway in the Perm Region. This was announced on January 12 by the FSB's Public Relations center."The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation,