The Russian intelligence services (FSB) announced on Monday that they had arrested several “members of a neo-Nazi group” planning to assassinate Vladimir Solovyov, a famous journalist close to Vladimir Putin.

But the evidence they provided for this foiled plot made many laugh, reports the

JDD

.

In its communication, the Kremlin assured that the assassination was ordered by the Ukrainian security services (SBU).

To prove its claims, the FSB published photos of exhibits: objects with swastikas, weapons, drugs, fake passports… and three copies of

The Sims 3

video game .

Classic saboteur checklist:


Explosives ✔️


Guns ✔️


Mein Kampf ✔️


Nazi Flag ✔️


The Sims Expansions ✔️✔️✔️ https://t.co/m1X7aAYRs9

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 25, 2022


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Small mistake in the staging?

Some experts have deduced that these photos were only a gross staging of the Kremlin, just like the plot, to discredit Ukraine.

According to Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative media Bellingcat, a member of the FSB would have been commissioned to bring “three SIM cards” and would have confused the object of his mission with the famous video game.

For his part, Vladimir Putin denounced an "act of terror" by evoking this project of "attack against a star journalist".

The Russian president repeated that this assassination was planned by Ukraine with the support of “responsible Western secret services, above all the CIA”.

Ukraine has denied these accusations.

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