The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) reported this Monday that it had managed to thwart an alleged operation by Ukraine that sought to detonate glasses used for drone control, in whose frames explosives would have been hidden.
According to the Russian agency, these devices were being sent to military personnel in the country by "Ukrainian intelligence agencies posing as volunteers" linked to humanitarian aid initiatives. The plot was uncovered when a soldier stationed in Volgograd located explosive material in one of the shipments of glasses and immediately alerted the FSB.
"Explosives experts carried out an X-ray and determined that Ukrainian intelligence services had implanted homemade explosive devices in the FPV glasses instead of cooling fans," explained the FSB, which attributes to Ukrainian secret services the attempt to introduce these tampered glasses into the Russian Army.
After this initial discovery, new checks were carried out in other areas of the country which, according to the official version, made it possible to locate and confiscate more units of the same type, hidden as drone control glasses, "which were delivered by the Ukrainian intelligence services through Russian mail."
The FSB maintains that the senders avoided revealing their identity at all times: "During the correspondence, they did not provide their personal information, phone numbers or workplaces, they refused to use the Max messaging service for telephone calls and insisted on obtaining videos of Russian soldiers expressing their gratitude."
The plan, according to the security service, was to activate the explosives at the moment the glasses were switched on: "The detonation of the explosive devices was to occur when the FPV glasses were turned on and would have caused the death of the military personnel," the FSB concluded, which says it has launched an operation to locate and detain those responsible for the alleged plot.