The FSB reported on the prevention of an assassination attempt on the leadership of Roskomnadzor: seven people were detained, one was killed

The FSB reported on the disruption of the preparation of a terrorist attack against the leaders of Roskomnadzor - according to the agency, they planned to kill one of the officials by blowing up his car, TASS reports . The intelligence service's Public Relations Center (PRC) reported that measures to detain members of the alleged group took place on April 18 in Moscow, Ufa, Novosibirsk and Yaroslavl, and seven people were taken into custody, whom the PSC described as supporters of “right-wing radical and neo-fascist views.” Recruitment, according to the FSB, took place through Telegram and was carried out by Ukrainian special services.

The alleged organizer of the group, a Muscovite born in 2004, was shot dead during his arrest. The DSP explained this as armed resistance on his part. Among those detained was the administrator of a chat in which, according to security forces, an attack on the deputy head of the RKN was discussed. In the same correspondence, according to the department, arson and murder were planned. During the searches, according to the FSB, a homemade explosive device weighing one kilogram, an F-1 grenade, a Makarov pistol with a silencer, two traumatic pistols, walkie-talkies, some neo-Nazi symbols, paraphernalia of “Ukrainian paramilitary forces” and “instructions for joining an organization banned in Russia” were seized.

Cases have been opened against the detainees for illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives, while at the same time the FSB is considering the issue of bringing charges of preparing for a terrorist attack. The DSP linked the very fact of the attack being prepared, according to the department, with the work of the RKN to “ensure the security of information space” - primarily with the blocking of Telegram, which, according to the intelligence service, Ukraine uses to organize sabotage, terrorist attacks and cyber fraud.

Previously, The Insider examined how criminal cases of “terrorist attacks ordered by Ukraine” are structured, based on correspondence on Telegram. In the case of Novosibirsk resident Ilya Baburin, who was sentenced in May 2025 to 25 years for allegedly preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office, there was no actual arson or preparation for it. The FSB officers themselves set up decorations for the military registration and enlistment office on an abandoned building, set them on fire and filmed them themselves, and recruited two of Baburin’s acquaintances in advance to provide “connection” with the “organizer.”

Human rights activist Dmitry Zakhvatov told The Insider that in political affairs, recruitment is often imitated through fake Telegram bots posing as Ukrainian special services. A person thinks that he is corresponding with Kiev, but in reality he is communicating with an operative who, step by step, leads him to the corpus delicti. According to Mediazona, from the beginning of the war to January 2025, at least 280 arson attacks on military registration and enlistment offices and similar facilities were recorded in Russia, and a significant part of such episodes turn out to be provocations of security forces.