MOSCOW. Sept 17 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has neutralized a Ukrainian military intelligence agent plotting to blow up the car of a defense enterprise executive in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, the FSB press center said on Tuesday.
"It has been established that the terrorist, acting on orders from his supervisors, made an improvised explosive device and planned to use it to blow up the car of a defense industry executive in the Sverdlovsk region," it said.
While being detained trying to hide the explosives in a cache, the man "put up armed resistance and was neutralized by return fire," it said.
The operation to detain him was part of a criminal case opened on a count of trafficking explosive substances and explosive devices, the FSB said.
The man plotting the crime was a Russian citizen, born in 1984, but was also "an agent of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate and a member of a Ukrainian nationalist terrorist organization banned in Russia," it said.