A Ukrainian female Powerlifting champion is said to have been deployed in Russia with killing the purpose of killing a top defense officer, is caught according to reports.
Yulia Lemeshchenko, 41, was one of the four female agents who were held by the FSB Security Service, claims of Russian media.
She had a Russian passport and Kiev used this to use her to find out enemy lines and to remove a leading military target, the FSB claims.
Lemeshchenko bears witness to an FSB video, but it is not known whether she was put under pressure to confess to recruitment during the war.
She was held in her flat in the city of Voronezh in mid -January and it is unclear why the Russians have only revealed her in detention.
The athlete was a Ukrainian winner from 2021 in the classic Powerlifting championship and secure three gold medals.
“In 2023 I was recruited by the Ukrainian security services,” she said on a video that is shared online.
“I was trained in Kiev and gained skills in dealing with handfather weapons, operating drones, avoiding surveillance and making explosive devices,” she said, adding that her handler gave her the alias 'Luffy'.
Yulia Lemeshchenko, 41, would be one of the four women who have been held by the FSB security service
She was a Ukrainian winner from 2021 in the classic Powerlifting Championship and secure three gold medals
Video Circulating Online seems to show that FSB agents are robbing an apartment and holding Lemeshchenko
'In 2024 I arrived in Russia and I was, on instructions of the Ukrainian special services, [ordered] To commit a terrorist act against a high -ranking soldier of the Russian Ministry of Defense. '
Lemeshchenko is deemed to have been born in the Russian city of Stary Oskol before moving to Ukraine in 2014 and settles in Kharkiv.
The Russian citizen claimed to bear the attack for KYIV to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, suggest reports.
All four women who were held by the FSB were trained in dealing with firearms and bombs, drone control and exterior surveillance, “said the security agency.
Another female agent was recruited two years ago and was deployed in Rostov-on-Don on a 'mission to kill'.
Another one was assigned to Snoop on top officials and sent to Sevastopol in the Russian -occupied Crimea. First she had to endure a polygraaf test in Kiev.
“I had to plant an explosive in his office,” she said, referring to her target.
Lemeshchenko is supposed to be born in the Russian city of Stary Oskol before moving to Ukraine in 2014 and settles in Kharkiv
Lemeshchenko bears witness to an FSB video, but it is not known whether she was put under pressure to admit to recruitment during the war
Moscow is after O to be raised alertNe van Vladimir Putin's Top Army Generals was killed in an explosion in December.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov died after a bomb was hidden in an electric scooter exploded outside his apartment in Moscow.
It went just after he came out of his apartment block with his assistant, who was also murdered.
It is believed that he is the most senior military officer who is being murdered since Russia launched his full invasion of Ukraine in Ukraine in February 2022.
The bombing – claimed by a member of the SBU security service of Ukraine – came a day after Kyiv Kirillov accused of supervising the widespread use of forbidden chemical weapons against his troops in the conflict zone.
The death of Kirillov is a series of murders on high -ranking Russian officials in recent months.
In December, Mikhail Shatsky, a designer of the Mars Design Bureau who had actively worked on upgrading the Russian KH-59-Cruise rocket.
His death followed three days after that of the infamous Russian prison torture and murderer Sergey Yevsyukov, 49, who had led the prison of Olenivka where Ukrainian prisoners of war were abused.
He was killed when his Toyota Land Cruiser exploded in a Donetsk car bombardment.
And at the end of November the Russian naval commander Captain Valery Trankovsky, 47, was killed in a car bombardment in Sevastopol.
