The Russian FSB prevented a terrorist attack using poisonous substances against a high-ranking officer of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the DPR.

Kiev wanted to kill him with a mixture of British-made poisons mixed into gift bottles of beer from the United Kingdom.

The poison mixture, containing an analogue of the poison VX would have caused a "painful death within 20 minutes."

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