The scooter would not have seemed out of place parked outside an apartment block in Moscow, where the electronic two-wheelers are a regular mode of transport for many of the Russian capital’s 13mn residents.
But this one — a key element of an elaborate and lethal operation — carried something other than a rider: an explosive device fixed with between 100 and 300 grammes of TNT, according to Russian investigators.
The bomb had been placed near the building on Moscow’s Ryazansky Prospekt by a covert operative under orders from Ukraine’s brazen state security service, the SBU, said people familiar with the attack.
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