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| FSB in Yekaterinburg detained an extremist for preparing a terrorist attack in a military unit |
| 2024-03-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] In Yekaterinburg, they laughed at an extremist who was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in one of the city’s military units. This was reported on March 21 by the press service of the regional department of the FSB. The special operation was carried out jointly with military counterintelligence agencies. The detainee turned out to be a functionary of the extremist organization “Citizens of the USSR” (the organization is included in the list of extremist organizations by the Ministry of Justice and is banned in the Russian Federation). He had five homemade incendiary devices with him. A criminal case was opened against the suspect under the article of preparation for a terrorist attack. By decision of the court, the defendant was sent into custody. He faces up to 20 years in prison. As Regnum reported, a man who intended to commit a terrorist attack at the Trans-Siberian Railway junction was detained in the Sverdlovsk region. The attacker is a 62-year-old Russian citizen. He acted on instructions from the State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, which recruited him in Lvov and sent him to Russia. A criminal case was opened against the man under the article of terrorism. On March 14, FSB officers defeated a secret cell of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) in St. Petersburg, which included four local residents who were adherents of right-wing radical ideology. Members of the cell conducted reconnaissance of life support facilities, transport, and other critical infrastructure in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region for the purpose of terrorist attacks. On instructions from Ukrainian military intelligence, they planned in St. Petersburg to poison food products for the Russian military in the Northern Military District zone with a highly toxic substance. The militants were detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center. A criminal case was opened against them. Terrorists planning an attack on a Moscow synagogue were eliminated in the Kaluga region on March 7. The attack on the parishioners of the capital's synagogue was planned by members of the Islamic State cell (a terrorist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). More from regnum.ru FSB detains two residents of Mariupol on suspicion of justifying terrorism [Regnum] Employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained two residents of Mariupol suspected of publicly justifying terrorism. This was reported on Thursday, March 21, by the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic. During the operational activities, it was established that the detainees published videos and comments on social networks aimed at justifying the terrorist activities of one of the banned Ukrainian neo-Nazi organizations and the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge in 2023. It is noted that the investigative department of the FSB opened two criminal cases under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism”). As reported by IA Regnum, on March 16, a man was detained in the Sverdlovsk region who was planning to commit a terrorist attack at the railway junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. A criminal case was opened against the detainee under the article on a terrorist attack (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The Russian FSB noted that the man, acting on instructions from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, admitted guilt. |
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