Ukrainian secret service agents tried to assassinate Vladimir Putin with a kamikaze drone laden with explosives but their top secret mission failed after the UAV crashed a few miles short of their target, it has been claimed.
The Ukrainian forces reportedly launched the UJ-22 drone, laden with 17 kilograms of C4 plastic explosives, from Ukraine on Sunday with the aim of reaching a newly built industrial estate near Moscow where Putin was due to visit, German newspaper Bild claims.
But before the deadly drone reached the Rudnevo industrial park on its apparent mission to assassinate the Russian despot, it crashed mere miles away from the site, Bild claimed while citing a tweet by Ukrainian activist Yuriy Romanenko.
Romanenko, who claims to have close ties to Kyiv‘s intelligence services, alleged that Ukrainian secret service agents had received ‘information’ about Putin’s apparent trip to the industrial site and had decided to launch the deadly drone in an attempt to assassinate the…