MADRID, 6 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Russian authorities have assured this Monday that they have prevented an assassination attempt against Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, president of the board of directors of the Tsargrad media group and close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has indicated that those responsible for the assassination attempt planned to plant a sticky bomb in Malofeyev’s vehicle and has accused the founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), Denis Kapustin, of the plan.
Malofeyev, who is also the founder of the international investment fund Marshall Capital Partners and who is subject to sanctions by the United States, created Tsargrad TV in 2015, which maintains a conservative editorial line and promotes the Orthodox religion.
The agency has reported that Kapustin is also the ‘mastermind’ of the attack perpetrated last week by “saboteurs” in the Bryansk region, located on the border with Ukraine, which resulted in at least two deaths, according to the Russian agency. of news Interfax.
The RDK claimed responsibility for the Briansk attack. The group has been part of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense since August 2022 and is made up of far-right Russians who previously fought within the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion group and other Ukrainian units in the Donbas region (east) since 2014. The group uses symbols of the Russian Liberation Army –known as the Vlasov Army–, which collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described what happened in the Briansk region as “a terrorist act” and “a crime” and denounced that the assailants crossed the border from Ukraine and “opened fire on civilians.” The president also called those responsible for the attack “neo-Nazis.”
