“The FSB of the Russian Federation prevented a terrorist act in the Republic of Crimea.

As a result of the measures taken, a resident of the region born in 1988, a former soldier of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was detained, ”RIA Novosti quotes a statement.

The FSB added that the detainee is a supporter of neo-Nazism, who, at the direction of the nationalists of the Azov regiment, was preparing an explosion and arson in one of the shopping and entertainment centers in Simferopol.

Earlier, the FSB Directorate for the Vladimir Region announced the arrest of a supporter of the pro-Ukrainian nationalist ideology involved in public calls for terrorism.