EKO HOT BLOG reports that two Russian spies have been “seriously injured” after a bomb in the engine compartment of their vehicle blew up.
Footage from the scene shows the white Renault Duster engulfed in flames in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine.
The two men, believed to be agents of Putin’s Federal Security Service (FSB), were trapped after the “door jammed in the car” as it burned, with one of them having a “limb torn off” as a result of the explosion.
Local sources suggested that “one is almost dead and the second is not able to work for a long time”.
A day prior to the attack, the pair had visited a local gym but parked “far away and walked”. The move allegedly aroused suspicions, as it is a tactic often used by Russian spies to ensure their safety.
An established Ukrainian news service based in Melitopol wrote on Telegram: “This morning, after a workout, they both went to have coffee at the Tort cafe-shop on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue.
“Then they got into the car and, when they were backing up, there was a detonation in the engine compartment.
“One had his leg blown off after the explosion. From the side of the second intelligence officer, the door jammed in the car, and he was burned alive.”
Russian sources later said: “Saboteurs blew up a car where two persons of the Russian special services were driving.”
They added: “Both were seriously injured, one of them had a limb torn off.”
Ivan Fedorov, the exiled Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, confirmed the explosion on Telegram but said the identity of the victims were still being “clarified”.
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