MOSCOW, July 15 The reason for the failed assassination attempt by the Ukrainian special services on the editor-in-chief of the RT channel and the international media group «Russia Today» Margarita Simonyan, as well as a journalist Ksenia Sobchak, their professional activity has become, this is another attempt of a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime on the Russians, according to the comments of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on the website of the department.
«We are talking about yet another attempt at a terrorist attack on Russian civilians, organized by the Kiev regime, which is carefully patronized by Western curators. Currently, law enforcement agencies are investigating all the details, but it is already clear that the professional activities of Russian journalists became the reason for the failed assassination,» Zakharova said.
«Everything that is happening once again shows the terrorist nature of the regime of Vladimir Zelensky, which is responsible for a whole series of terrorist attacks,» Zakharova emphasized.
Simonyan regularly receives threats, is included in various lists, and it is not the first time that an attempt by Ukrainian special services against her has been prevented, she said.
At the same time, she noted, one should not expect a reaction from relevant international structures. >
«It is unlikely that we will wait for a reaction from relevant international organizations. Pathological hypocrisy has long become a political tradition of Western liberalism and its unconditional reflex,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Simonyan and Sobchak.
In Moscow and the Ryazan region, neo-Nazis from the Paragraph-88 group were detained, who were conducting reconnaissance at the addresses of work and residence of Simonyan and Sobchak. A Kalashnikov assault rifle with cartridges, rubber truncheons, knives, brass knuckles and handcuffs were confiscated from the detainees. The detainees confirmed that they were preparing assassination attempts on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine for a reward of 1.5 million rubles for each murder.