Russia requests Ukraine to extradite Putin assassination plot suspect

"The PGO drew and forwarded to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office the extradition request in order to arraign Adam Osmayev, who had been wanted by police since 2008 on charges of the commission of terrorist crimes," Gridneva said.

In February, Osmayev was detained in Ukraine on suspicions of illegal keeping of explosives; police also ascertained his involvement in preparing an assassination attempt on the life of Vladimir Putin.

On February 27, media outlets reported that an assassination plot against Putin had been exposed. On January 4, an explosion ripped through an apartment in Odessa, and two days later, Ukraine's Security Service advised its FSB colleagues. Police found in the apartment bomb parts. Ruslam Madayev, who had rented the apartment, was killed in the explosion; the second victim - Ilya Pyanzin - survived.

They came to Odessa together from the United Arab Emirates via Turkey with "clear instructions from representatives of terrorist Doku Umarov.

Russia's First Channel ran a fragment of the questioning of Pyanzin. He said: "they told us we should go to Odessa first, to learn to make bombs, carry out acts of sabotage at Moscow economic facilities, and then assassinate Putin."

Adam Osmayev, who was injured in the blast, escaped. Odessa police then asked citizens to help find two very dangerous criminals: Adam Osmayev and Aslanbek Osmayev, natives of Chechnya.

In a joint operation by Russian and Ukrainian secret services, Adam Osmayev was detained in an Odessa apartment. He had been wanted by Interpol since 2007.

He began to cooperate with the investigators and told them that the "final objective was to come to Moscow and try to assassinate premier Putin."

Osmayev said he had no intention to become a suicide bomber, and that Ruslan Madayev was ready to become one.

According to secret services, it was Osmayev, who had lived abroad /in London/ for a long time, who was terrorists' liaison man in Odessa and an instructor. He had to train terrorists and ferry them to Moscow. Detectives found the plan of preparations in his notebook.

There is video among the files showing Putin motorcade's movement. "To understand how the guarded person gets into the car and the number of accompanying cars, videoing was performed from various angels and streets," a Federal Security Office said.