Fakhriev Rustem Saitkhalilovich

Dec. 1, 2025. Ukrainian intelligence agent who attempted to plant a bomb under the car of a Russian Defense Ministry officer was eliminated in Crimea, the FSB reported. “A terrorist act prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the territory of the Republic of Crimea against one of the senior officers of the Russian Ministry of Defense has been prevented,” the statement said. According to the information received, the recruited Ukrainian citizen was supposed to kill the Russian serviceman in his car using an explosive device that had been handed over to him. The criminal was neutralized while planting the bomb and offered armed resistance. “The organizer of the terrorist attack is an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Fakhriyev Rustem Saitkhalilovich, born in 1984,” the agency said. The attacker's means of communication with his supervisor and components of a Western-made explosive device were seized. The FSB also detained a Crimean resident who was one of the accomplices in the planned crime. A criminal case was opened against him under the article on aiding terrorist activity. The court remanded him in custody. ___ One of the accomplices in the foiled attempt to assassinate a Russian Defense Ministry officer in Crimea has been arrested, the Russian FSB reported. The FSB reported that it had prevented the murder in Crimea of one of the senior officers of the Russian Ministry of Defense, who was targeted by Ukrainian military intelligence. The plan was to blow him up in his personal car. A Kiev agent planted a bomb under the car, resisted the security forces, and was killed. According to the FSB, the organizer of this foiled terrorist attack was Rustem Fakhriev, an employee of Ukrainian military intelligence. "One of his accomplices, a resident of the Republic of Crimea, has been detained. A criminal case has been opened against the latter under Article 205.1 (facilitation of terrorist activity) of the Russian Criminal Code. By court order, he has been remanded in custody," the statement said. Dec. 1, 2025 The FSB released a video of the arrest of an accomplice in the attempted assassination of a Russian Defense Ministry officer in Crimea on orders from Kiev, and the bomb that was to be planted under his car. The footage shows an unknown object lying near the door of a Kia Optima car. Next, the dismantled bomb, which used a phone battery and ordinary wires for mobile devices, is shown up close. Separate footage shows the arrest of the accomplice in the attempted crime. Operatives arrive at his home, handcuff him, put him in a white Gazelle van, and take him to the police station. Earlier, the FSB reported the neutralization of an agent of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who was supposed to blow up a car with one of the senior officers of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the territory of Crimea. The perpetrator was killed while attempting to plant explosives under the car and resisting Russian FSB officers. It has been established that the organizer of the terrorist attack was GUR employee Rustem Fakhriyev. One of his accomplices, a resident of the Republic of Crimea, has been detained and arrested. ___ Dec. 25, 2025. Rustem Fakhriyev*, an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate who organized the attempted assassination of a Russian Defense Ministry officer in Crimea, has been added to the list of terrorists and extremists in Russia, according to Rosfinmonitoring. On December 1, the FSB announced that it had prevented the assassination in Crimea of one of the senior officers of the Russian Ministry of Defense, who was targeted by Ukrainian military intelligence. The plan was to blow him up in his personal car. An agent of the Kiev regime planted a bomb under the car, resisted the security forces, and was eliminated. According to the Federal Security Service, the organizer of the foiled terrorist attack was an employee of the Ukrainian military intelligence service, Fakhriyev*. “List of terrorists and extremists (included) - Fakhriyev* Rustem Saitkhalilovich, born December 25, 1984, city of Abinsk, Krasnodar Territory,” the list on the Rosfinmonitoring website says. ___