Russia Arrests German Woman in Ukrainian Bomb Plot

Russian security forces announced on Monday the arrest of a 57-year-old German woman in the southern city of Pyatigorsk, accusing her of carrying an explosive device as part of a plot directed by Ukrainian intelligence to target a law enforcement facility in the Stavropol region.

The Federal Security Service, or FSB, stated that the woman was detained with an improvised bomb in her backpack, containing an explosive charge equivalent to 1.5 kilograms of TNT. According to the agency, the device was designed for remote detonation and would have killed the woman herself in the process. FSB officials said the attack was thwarted through electronic jamming that disrupted the detonation mechanism. They also arrested a 27-year-old man from a Central Asian country near the intended target site. The FSB claimed the man, described as a supporter of radical ideology, believed he was acting on behalf of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia but was actually coordinating with Ukrainian special services.

Footage released by Russian authorities showed armed agents approaching the woman, who was lying face down in a parking lot while pointing weapons at her and a nearby...