Failed Assassination Plot Targets Russian General and Kremlin-Installed Official

A Russian general, Major-General Yuri Afanasevskii, was seriously injured in a failed assassination attempt in the occupied Luhansk region. He was given a bomb-rigged cellphone that exploded upon activation. Afanasevskii suffered shrapnel wounds to his head, neck, and stomach, while his son had three fingers amputated. A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, and she has confessed to her role in the plot allegedly orchestrated by Ukraine's intelligence operatives. Afanasevskii, a former chairman of the State Customs Committee, had been sanctioned by several countries and was accused of financing pro-Russian paramilitary groups.