Pro-Ukrainian ‘saboteur’ is trapped near Vladimir Putin’s £1bn clifftop palace with a bomb, Russian security service claims
- The suspect was accused of planning the explosion near the tyrant’s Black Sea resort.
- The palace is rumored to be worth around £1 billion and has its own bunker.
A pro-Ukrainian “saboteur” has been caught with a bomb near Vladimir Putin’s palatial cliff-top hideout in southern Russia, Moscow forces have claimed.
The anonymous 42-year-old was described as a “supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazism” as he was detained by FSB agents on suspicion of “terrorist offences”.
The suspect was accused of plotting the explosion near the tyrant’s Gelendzhik Black Sea resort, which perches delicately on the cliffs of the southern Krasnodar region.
The palace is rumored to be worth around £1 billion and has its own underground bunker. The sprawling pleasure mansion dwarfs Buckingham Palace in size and is just one of the despot’s opulent private residences in Russia.
The footage showed Russian forces dressed in heavy military uniforms walking away from the suspect, one man holding each of the suspect’s arms.
The anonymous 42-year-old was detained by FSB agents on suspicion of “terrorist offences”.
The suspect was accused of planning the explosion near the tyrant’s Gelendzhik resort on the Black Sea, in the southern Krasnodar region.
The footage showed Russian forces dressed in heavy military uniforms taking the suspect away.
The FSB security service said: ‘A ready-to-use improvised explosive device was seized from a hideout equipped by a radical in a wooded area on the outskirts of the settlement.
‘Components for the manufacture of IED [improvised explosive devices] were seized at his residential address.
Instructions for assembling explosive devices and their use were also found, the FSB counterintelligence agency, once headed by Putin, said.
These were ‘received from internet communities run by militants of Ukrainian nationalist formations’.
The man, seen on video detained by the FSB, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of terrorism offences.
His alleged bomb factory was shown as a cache supposedly to hide explosive devices in a local forest.
Putin’s sprawling clifftop residence is at the elite resort, though Russian state media is barred from revealing details of the 70-year-old dictator’s palace.
Recent revelations indicate that Putin has built an elaborate bunker complex in Gelendzhik, where he could rule Russia in the event of nuclear war.
The diagrams indicate a cavernous system of underground caches with ventilation, sewage, and fresh water supply systems.
The suspect’s arms are placed behind his back as he was caught by Russian forces with a bomb near Vladimir Putin’s palatial £1 billion clifftop hideout.
The man, seen on video detained by the FSB, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of terrorism offences.
The FSB branded the anonymous 42-year-old a “supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazism.”
The FSB security service said: “A ready-to-use improvised explosive device was seized from a cache equipped by a radical in a wooded area on the outskirts of the settlement.”
![The FSB said: 'Components to make IEDs [improvised explosive devices] were seized at his residential address.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/27/09/71473711-12130775-image-a-22_1685174778347.jpg)
The FSB said: ‘Components to make IEDs [improvised explosive devices] were seized at his residential address.
The underground complex spans 6,500 square feet, with an elevator shaft connecting the complex to two tunnels.
The main palace, larger than any British royal property, includes a pole-dancing venue and a vineyard, according to previous disclosures.
The building is surrounded by some 17,000 acres of land owned by Russia’s FSB security service, with no-fly and navigation zones protecting it from prying eyes.
A marina and helipads were built to facilitate the president’s access to the palace, as well as a railway that is said to be Putin’s favorite mode of transportation.
Russian authorities have accused the anonymous man of attempting an attack on a police facility.
The palace is surrounded by these police checkpoints, preventing access to Putin’s hideout which he is believed to share with his mistress Alina Kabaeva, 40, an Olympic gold medal-winning rhythmic gymnast, and her young family.
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