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Putin comments on detention of the group planning to assassinate Solovyov

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia and Vladimir Solovyov, Russian journalist and TV presenter

25 April 2022 17:26 (UTC +04:00)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on the detention of a group planning to assassinate Russian journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov at a meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office, APA's Moscow correspondent reports.

"This morning, the (Russian) Federal Security Service suppressed the activities of a terrorist group that planned to kill a famous Russian TV journalist. Of course, now they will disown this, but the facts, the evidence are irrefutable," he claimed.

Russia knows the CIA agents that allegedly recommended that Ukrainian saboteurs kill Russian journalists, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

"We know by name the curators of the Ukrainian Nazis from Western services, primarily the US CIA, who give such advice as the murder of (Russian) journalists," Putin said, speaking at an expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board in Moscow.

He said the West is using its information space monopoly to fight Russia but with little success and so it started resorting to "open terrorism."