Russian spy rings hit rock bottom: SBU nabs two agents in Kyiv
Russian intelligence recruited a failed baker and a woman in a grandma disguise to plant a car bomb in central Kyiv, but forgot that GPS trackers work both ways.
The Russian recruitment strategy for high-stakes sabotage has hit a brand new low. Counterintelligence at the SBU intercepted a car bombing plot in central Kyiv near Maidan, arresting two female agents who were operating in a bizarre spy duet.
The first agent, an unemployed woman from Sumy, assembled an explosive device using video tutorials sent directly by her handler. To hide the bomb in a cemetery stash, she disguised herself as an elderly woman wearing a floral headscarf. The second agent — a bankrupt pastry shop owner from occupied Sevastopol who took the assignment to pay off her debts — was brought in to finish the job. She was instructed to wear a wig, attach a GPS tracker to a Ukrainian soldier's car, and plant six kilograms of explosives underneath it.
The plot collapsed because law enforcement spotted the GPS tracker on the vehicle early on. Ukrainian agents trailed the operation and arrested the fake grandmother at the cemetery, while picking up the former baker at her apartment alongside her wig and six kilos of raw explosives.
A life sentence in prison is certainly one way to settle outstanding business debts.
Source: SBU
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