A UKRAINIAN feminine powerlifting champion was despatched behind enemy strains to assassinate a prime official, Russia claims.

Yulia Lemeshchenko, 41, was one in every of 4 girls brokers detained by the Russian FSB safety service because it cracked down on alleged spies despatched by Kyiv.

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Lemeshchenko was pressured to look in a Russian confession video the place she supposedly admitted to being a spy – possible beneath excessive duress.

Within the video, launched by Moscow, the Ukrainian supposedly admitted she moved to Russia in 2024 to allegedly assassinate a prime official earlier than being detained at her flat in Voronezh metropolis in mid-January.

It’s unclear why the Russians have solely now revealed her custody – however the secret service embarrassingly admitted that Lemeshchenko had a Russian passport.

It isn’t clear if Putin’s goons have been forcing Lemeshchenko into saying the phrases or whether or not she mentioned them of her personal free will following her arrest.

It is a widespread tactic for Putin’s puppets to power prisoners to admit to made-up crimes beneath excessive duress.

Within the video, Lemeshchenko made the wild claims she was a spy for Ukraine.

She says: “In 2023, I used to be recruited by the Ukrainian safety companies.

“I used to be educated in Kyiv and bought abilities in dealing with small arms, working drones, evading surveillance, and making explosive gadgets.

“My handler gave me the alias Luffy.

“In 2024, I arrived in Russia and, on the directions of Ukrainian particular companies, was [ordered] to commit a terrorist act in opposition to a high-ranking serviceman from the Russian Defence Ministry.”

Lemeshchenko squatted 130kgs, benched 77.5kgs, and deadlifted 170kgs within the Ukrainian Basic Powerlifting Championships, based on Open Powerlifting.

She was a 2021 Ukrainian winner within the Basic Powerlifting Championship, securing three gold medals.

All 4 girls detained by the FSB had been educated “in dealing with firearms and bombs, drone management and outside surveillance”, the FSB claimed – with out offering proof.

One other feminine agent was allegedly recruited two years in the past and deployed to Rostov-on-Don on a “mission to kill”.

Yet another was assigned to listen in on prime officers and despatched to Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, the FSB claimed – once more, with out proof.

First she needed to cross a polygraph take a look at in Kyiv.

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In January, Russia arrested a kettlebell lifting champion who had allegedly shot a spy within the head.

Vladimir Feshchenko, 26, a senior lieutenant, was killed by a bullet to the pinnacle within the mysterious capturing.

The killer was allegedly a extra junior warrant officer who was visiting him in his workplace in a defence ministry constructing.

Feshchenko – a Russian champion in kettlebell lifting in addition to a secret companies officer – is believed to have labored on the FSB Directorate for the Moscow Army District.

It comes as US president Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke about ending Russia’s invasion of the nation.

The US president claimed mad Vlad “does care” about ending the battle – and desires to “see individuals cease dying”.

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January was the second bloodiest month for Russia because the begin of the battle practically three years in the past and there have been greater than 837,000 Russian casualties because the invasion.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Sunday he may “neither verify nor deny” experiences of a dialog between Putin and Trump, Russian state information company TASS reported. 

Vice President JD Vance can be set to satisfy Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on the Munich Safety Convention this week.

Trump has mentioned he needs an eye-watering $500 million cope with Zelensky to amass rare-earth minerals and fuel in Ukraine in alternate for safety ensures in a possible peace settlement.

Trump and Zelensky have had a notoriously frosty relationship as a result of Republican’s friendship with Putin.

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