Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it had detained a 57-year-old German woman who had a bomb in her backpack, in what the FSB said was a false flag operation coordinated by Ukrainian secret services, Reuters reports.
Images released by Russian authorities showed a woman lying on the asphalt of a parking lot, while men held guns pointed at her – and next to her was a backpack. Also, the images showed how the geniuses detonated a backpack that would have belonged to her.
🚨BREAKING
A terrorist German citizen, on orders from Kiev, wanted to detonate an explosion at a security agency facility in Pyatigorsk.
▪️The FSB detained the woman.
▪️She was found in possession of explosives equivalent to 1.5 kg of TNT.
▪️A citizen of a Central Asian… pic.twitter.com/sHyRTyYYtq— Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 (@aleksthgrt) April 20, 2026
The FSB said the German woman, who was carrying a bomb with a power equivalent to 1.5 kg of TNT, was targeting a law enforcement institution in the Stavropol region in a false flag operation led by Ukraine.
The FSB said it had also detained a national of a Central Asian country who it believed was acting on behalf of a “terrorist organisation” and was set to detonate the bomb.
“The man's actions were coordinated by employees of the Ukrainian special services under the guise of members of one of the international terrorist organizations banned in Russia,” the FSB said.
