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A “combat group” operating under Russian orders has been neutralized while preparing “a violent seizure of power in Odesa,” Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said on Sept. 23. In a post on Telegram, the SBU said the group had originally planned to seize administrative buildings and state institutions in the city at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It said that once Moscow’s invasion faltered, the group was instead instructed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to lie low and await further instructions. It was then reactivated over the summer but was exposed…

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