The FSB said it had prevented a drone attack on an unnamed facility in the Moscow region and claimed that Ukrainian rapper Kyivstoner, whose real name is Albert Vasilyev, was involved in preparing it. According to the security service, the attack had been planned by the SBU.
The agency said the target in the Moscow region was to be attacked by 35 drones. It claimed that all of them were shot down immediately after launch. The FSB also alleged that the drones had been smuggled from Ukraine into Russia through Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus, and that European intelligence services had assisted the SBU.
According to the FSB, the suspected perpetrator was detained. In its statement, the agency described him as a former member of an ethnic organized crime group who had fought in Ukraine as part of the Wagner Group. The renter of the hangar where the drones were allegedly stored was, the FSB said, killed by security forces after offering armed resistance during the arrest.
The FSB’s account of the rapper’s role
The service said that, in addition to two Moldovan citizens, Kyivstoner was involved in organizing the attack. It also alleged that he now lives in Spain and Slovakia and supposedly combines his activities with cocaine distribution.
Later, TASS, citing the FSB, published a video of the detainee’s interrogation with his face obscured. In the footage, the man said he knew Kyivstoner and that the rapper had allegedly asked him, for money, to take food and tools to the Moscow region and leave them in a forest belt. He also said he had received money from the performer and passed it to an unidentified person.
Kyivstoner’s response
“What the f**k?”
That was how the rapper responded in an Instagram story to reports about his alleged involvement in preparing an attack on a facility in the Moscow region. Updated at 10:10 Moscow time: the article was supplemented with the detainee’s comments about Kyivstoner.