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| FSB prevented terrorist attack in Chelyabinsk |
| 2023-11-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian special services stopped an attempted terrorist attack in Chelyabinsk using homemade incendiary grenades, the regional FSB department reported on November 14. “As a supporter of the ideology of the Ukrainian nationalist organization, the specified person intended to commit a terrorist act ,” the report says. According to investigators, the detainee was planning to throw a Molotov cocktail into one of the administrative buildings. When detained, the man had a lighter and bottles of incendiary liquid on him. A criminal case was opened against the attacker under the article of attempted terrorist attack. The detainee was placed in a pre-trial detention center. The circumstances of the incident are being established. As Regnum reported, in June in the Chelyabinsk region, FSB officers stopped a terrorist attack against one of the territorial bodies of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to investigators, the attacker planned to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office building in Magnitogorsk and a section of the South Ural Railway. The department stated that the attacker acted on instructions from the Ukrainian intelligence services. In Gelendzhik in May, FSB officers detained a supporter of Ukrainian nationalists who was preparing a terrorist attack on a law enforcement facility. The man planned to detonate an improvised explosive device. |
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