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A raid on an alleged Western plot to kill a pro-Putin journalist in Russia appeared to have been exposed as mere propaganda last night after video on state TV showed a clumsy attempt to frame the alleged attackers.

Vladimir Putin announced an FSB operation had thwarted a plan by neo-nazis backed by the West to kill one of Russia’s most notorious pro-Kremlin TV hosts, because the West “faced an information fiasco in Russia”.

The FSB promptly released footage, broadcast on state TV, purporting to show the operation to arrest six Russian members of a fascist group who have been recruited by Ukraine’s intelligence agency to kill Vladimir Solovyov as well as other TV personalities.

The seven-minute video, however, raised suspicions that the foiled plot may have been a Russian intelligence hoax.

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