Ukrainian sabotage groups blew up power lines connected to the Kursk nuclear power plant, the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia reported.

“On August 4, 9 and 12, in the Kurchatov district of the Kursk region, Ukrainian sabotage groups blew up six towers of high-voltage power lines (110, 330 and 750 kV), through which the Kursk NPP supplies energy to industrial facilities, transport, life support, social infrastructure and the population - as region, as well as neighboring regions of the country,” the report says.

It is noted that these actions led to a disruption in the technological process of the functioning of the nuclear power plant.

Criminal cases under Art.

205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Terrorist act”).

“The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, is searching for criminals and their possible accomplices.

In cooperation with the National Guard, measures have been taken to strengthen the protection of nuclear facilities, ”the FSB stressed.

In addition, in the Stavropol Territory, security forces stopped the illegal activities of a local resident involved in the activities of the extremist nationalist organization Right Sector*.

He planned to set fire to the administrative buildings of the Mineralnye Vody urban district and the urban district of the resort town of Zheleznovodsk in the Stavropol Territory.

“The supporter of nationalism did not have time to realize his criminal plan, as he was detained by law enforcement officers.

During the search activities, components for the manufacture of an incendiary mixture were found and seized.

The person involved gave a confession, ”the FSB DSO press release said.

The detainee was taken into custody, a criminal case was initiated against him under the article “Terrorist act”.

Opposition to Ukrainian nationalists

On August 15, the FSB prevented a sabotage and terrorist act on the territory of the Volgograd region.

The security forces did not allow two malefactors, who acted under the control of the Ukrainian special services, to blow up the oil pipeline.

They were liquidated in connection with the provision of resistance during the arrest.

Members of the right-wing radical group "Restrukt", created by neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, were responsible for organizing the crime.

On August 5, a local resident, a citizen of the Russian Federation born in 1992, was detained in Cherkessk.

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

On July 29, three Ukrainians were detained in Lipetsk who planned to detonate an improvised explosive device at the Sokol bus station in Lipetsk.

The saboteurs were part of a group created by the Right Sector under the auspices of the SBU.

On July 25, an attempt to hijack combat aircraft of the RF Armed Forces was foiled.

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

On July 22, a 35-year-old resident of St. Petersburg was detained, who intended to illegally cross the state border in Crimea 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 18, FSB officers identified a citizen of Ukraine who arrived in the Russian Federation 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 Russian Armed Forces through the territory of the Rostov region.

* "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).