FSB detains man dressed as elderly lady in ‘Ukrainian bomb plot’ (VIDEO)

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate the head of a Russian defense company in St. Petersburg, the agency claimed on Thursday.

The male suspect, dressed in women’s clothes “in an attempt to mislead the investigation” but was apprehended by officers while planting the bomb on the target’s vehicle, it added. Footage released by the agency captured the man posing as an elderly lady.

According to the FSB, Ukrainian spy services recruited a man and two women online to carry out the planned car bomb attack.

On the orders of their handlers, the women surveilled their target before obtaining an improvised explosive device from a stash at a local cemetery and handing it over to the would-be assassin, the agency said in a statement.