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| In the Urals, the FSB detain suspect planning a terrorist attack on the Trans-Siberian Railway |
| 2024-03-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A man who intended to commit a terrorist attack at a railway junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway was detained in the Sverdlovsk region, the Russian FSB told reporters on March 16. The detainee is a Russian citizen born in 1962. He acted on instructions from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. A criminal case has been initiated under the article on a terrorist attack (Part 3, Article 30, Clause and Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). “The defendant confessed to the crime and is cooperating with the investigation,” the statement says. The department noted that the Ukrainian special services recruited the man in the city of Lvov. After completing sabotage training, he was sent to Russia. Here he was supposed to set up explosions to overturn trains carrying military cargo. As Regnum reported, a Russian citizen was previously detained in the Belgorod region while preparing sabotage at one of the railway transport facilities. The woman, according to the FSB, acted on instructions from the Ukrainian special services. In Moscow, FSB officers detained a Ukrainian agent who was launching drones near military installations in order to confuse the air defense with false targets. He assembled and launched drones in close proximity to Russian Defense Ministry facilities. |
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