A Russian general was seriously injured by the explosion of a mobile phone used in a failed assassination attempt by the Security Service of Ukraine, according to local reports.
Major General Yuri Afanasevskii, former chairman of the State Customs Committee of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, was blown up at his home in the occupied region on Sunday.
He had been given a phone with a bomb that detonated as soon as it was activated, according to the Russian Investigative Committee.
Afanasevskii was rushed to hospital with severe shrapnel wounds to his head, neck and stomach, sources in Ukraine’s security services told RBC-Ukraine.
The general’s 21-year-old son was also injured and had to have three fingers amputated, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.
Major General Yuri Afanasevskii was injured in a mobile phone explosion in the occupied Luhansk region on Sunday. LNR Customs Department
Luhansk officials downplayed the severity of Afanasevskii’s injuries, telling Tass that “he is alive and well.”
Sources told media it was an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine’s secret service.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said a woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly handing Afanasevskii the explosive-laden cellphone.
Afanasevskii is a former chairman of the State Customs Committee of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic.Telegram
The suspect has already confessed to her role in the failed assassination plot allegedly masterminded by Ukrainian intelligence agents, according to reports.
Afanasevskii served in Russia’s much-feared Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, and allegedly acted as a “financier” for Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
The FSB general was said to have laundered money to finance pro-Russian paramilitary groups fighting kyiv forces.
Afanasevskii served in the Russian Federal Security Service, loyal to President Vladimir Putin. ZUMAPRESS.com
Afanasevskii reportedly served as a financier for Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic.POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Afanasevskii had previously been sanctioned by the European Union, Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland and Japan.
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