Simon Ateba, chief White House correspondent at Today News Africa in Washington, D.C., reports that a man named Vasily Petrov Alekseevich from Podolsk, Russia, was arrested in Moscow and accused of conspiring with Ukraine to assassinate Tucker Carlson.
Alekseevich claims he was recruited and offered $4,000 by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to assassinate Tucker Carlson while he was in Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the video, Alekseevich stated he was trained by Ukrainian intelligence in espionage, communications, assembly of explosive devices, and retrieval of explosives from dead drops. He states that he was instructed to place an explosive device on a vehicle in the underground parking lot of the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow.
Alekseevich states the plot was thwarted when he was arrested while preparing to carry out the assassination, stating, “I was arrested during the preparation stage.”
