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| FSB report on the prevention of a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory became the third in a month | ||
| 2022-10-29 | ||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Since the beginning of October, the Federal Security Service has reported three times that terrorist attacks have been prevented and members of three groups of supporters of radical movements have been detained. Twice, according to the security forces, supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" * were detained, the last time to date, supporters of Ukrainian radical organizations were detained. Among the targets of the terrorists, the security forces named an administrative facility, a police department and a transport infrastructure facility. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that today the FSB reported on the arrest of four people who were planning a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory. According to the FSB, the detainees were supporters of Ukrainian radical organizations. "Being supporters of the ideology of Ukrainian nationalist organizations,
Four days earlier, on October 24, the security forces reported the arrest of two supporters of the banned Islamic State* terrorist organization. According to the FSB, they were preparing a terrorist act in the Pyatigorsk police department "at the direction of foreign emissaries." The group, according to security officials, included people from Central Asia
On October 7, the FSB reported that members of the Islamic State cell had been detained in the regional center. According to security officials, the detainees were planning a terrorist attack on a transport infrastructure facility. During searches in the places of residence of the suspects, components and damaging elements for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices, and means of secret communications were found. The exact number of detainees was not reported, but from the frames of the released video it can be concluded that two men and women were detained . We also recall that the FSB twice reported on the prevention of terrorist attacks in the Stavropol Territory in April. On April 25, the agency reported on the arrest of an IS supporter suspected of plotting a terrorist attack at a transport infrastructure facility in the Stavropol Territory. In the video, the detainee admitted that he joined the ranks of the Islamic State and planned a terrorist attack . On April 13, the security forces said that a supporter of the "Islamic state" *  from Stavropol planned to commit a terrorist attack at the railway station, elements of an explosive device were confiscated from him. The special services are motivated to disseminate doubtful reports about the detention of alleged terrorists in the Stavropol Territory in order to improve reporting and for propaganda purposes, journalist Yelena Suslova and human rights activist Arsen Sarkisov explained to the "Caucasian Knot". Valery Ledovskoy, coordinator of the Center for Civic Initiatives of the North Caucasus Federal District, named a warning about the consequences of participation in radical organizations as a likely goal of such propaganda. Related: Stavropol: 2022-10-25 Two suspected of plotting a terrorist attack arrested in Pyatigorsk Stavropol: 2022-10-22 Putin's troops moan that they have been issued with plastic paintball masks, children's gloves and rubber boots to fight on the front line of Russia's war with Ukraine Stavropol: 2022-10-22 Resident of Kislovodsk received a sentence for financing ISIS | ||
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