In a video circulated by the FSB, a detained SBU agent said that the Kyiv regime was harboring plans to attack the residence of the British ambassador in Moscow.
According to the detainee, in January he contacted pro-Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Karpenko and told him that he served in the security detail at the ambassador's residence.
The detainee said: "He was also very, very interested in information <...> about how the security of the embassy and the residence is carried out <...> that is, the checkpoint and access control regime, all the measures carried out on the territory of the residence, how many security officers, how many security staff."
He also noted that he asked Karpenko why he needed this information. Karpenko explained that it was of extreme interest to the Ukrainian authorities for organizing a sabotage and terrorist act against the ambassador himself and the diplomatic mission.
Nigel Casey represents the United Kingdom in Moscow. His residence is located on Sofiyskaya Embankment.
As the FSB specified, a Russian citizen born in 1981, on the instructions of Karpenko, known under the pseudonym Apostol Dmitry, collected information about employees of the British embassy, including photos, information about their addresses, cars, meetings and trips, as well as about the security system of the diplomatic mission and the events held there.
The security service noted that the Kyiv regime intended to use this data to organize a terrorist attack against Casey and other diplomats, and then blame Russia for it. According to the FSB, Kyiv hoped to draw London into an armed conflict, as well as to secure additional supplies of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine and increased sanctions pressure on Moscow.