In the Volgograd region, as a result of a complex of operational-search measures, an attempt by the Ukrainian special services to prepare a sabotage and terrorist act was prevented, the FSB Public Relations Center reported.

“During the arrest, while trying to undermine the oil pipeline, two citizens of the Russian Federation who offered armed resistance, who were part of the right-wing radical group Restrukt, created by the neo-Nazi video blogger Maxim Martsinkevich (nickname Tesak), were neutralized,” the report says.

Special service officers seized at the crime scene a high-powered improvised explosive device, as well as two traumatic pistols converted to fire live ammunition.

According to the FSB, members of Restrukt were responsible for organizing the sabotage and terrorist act: Russian citizen Andrey Chuenkov, who is currently participating in hostilities in Ukraine as part of the Uragan national battalion, as well as a soldier of the Azov nationalist battalion * 

Ukrainian Yuri Ionov, who has a close relationship with its founder Andrey Biletsky.

Chuenkov and Ionov carried out their activities under the control of the Ukrainian special services.

“The security authorities, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, organized measures to suppress the criminal activities of Andrei Chuenkov and Yuri Ionov, as well as to search for their accomplices in Russia,” the FSB stressed.

Martsinkevich, known by the nickname Tesak, was sentenced to ten years in 2017 for attacks on people he considered pedophiles and drug dealers.

He committed suicide in SIZO-3 of Chelyabinsk in September 2020.

Planned SBU attempts to commit terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation

Over the past month, several attempts by representatives of Ukraine to commit acts of a terrorist nature on the territory of the Russian Federation have been prevented.

On July 18, the FSB identified a citizen of Ukraine who arrived in Russia in order to fulfill the task of the Fifth Directorate of the Counterintelligence Department of the SBU to collect and transfer information about the movement of military equipment of the RF Armed Forces through the territory of the Rostov region.

On July 22, a 35-year-old Petersburger was detained in Crimea, who intended to illegally cross the state border to join an illegal armed formation on the territory of Ukraine.

A criminal case was opened against him under the article on attempted participation in an illegal armed formation.

On July 25, FSB officers stopped an attempt to hijack Russian combat aircraft.

This operation was planned by representatives of the military intelligence of Ukraine, and was supervised by the special services of the NATO countries.

On July 29, a terrorist attack was prevented in Lipetsk, which was prepared by the militants of a group created by the Right Sector ** under the patronage of the SBU.

The attackers - three Ukrainian citizens: a man born in 1988 (leader, previously repeatedly convicted of pedophilia) and two women - planned to detonate an improvised explosive device in a large crowd at the Sokol bus station in Lipetsk.

On August 5, a local resident, a citizen of the Russian Federation born in 1992, who is an adherent of neo-Nazi ideology, was detained in Cherkessk.

He acted under the patronage of the "Right Sector" and intended to stage terrorist attacks in the prosecutor's office and the military registration and enlistment office of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.

* "Azov" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 08/02/2022.

** "Right Sector" is a Ukrainian association of radical nationalist organizations, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).