Employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation stopped the activities of a cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami in Crimea, the FSB Public Relations Center reports.
“As a result of coordinated actions by Russian FSB officers in the cities of Dzhankoy and Yalta, a secret cell of a terrorist organization consisting of six Russian citizens was neutralized,” the report says.
The security forces established that the detainees carried out purposeful work to spread terrorist ideology on the territory of the Russian Federation and recruited Muslim residents of Russia into their ranks, coordinating their actions with the emissaries of the MTO staying in Ukraine.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami propaganda materials banned in Russia, communications equipment, electronic media used by them in carrying out terrorist activities were found and seized at the places of residence of the criminals,” the FSB noted.
Criminal cases have been initiated against the detainees.
Activities of the FSB in countering terrorism
On August 16, FSB officers in the Stavropol Territory stopped the illegal activities of a local resident involved in the extremist nationalist organization Right Sector**.
The young man planned to set fire to the administrative buildings of the Mineralnye Vody urban district and the urban district of the resort town of Zheleznovodsk, Stavropol Territory.
Also on that day, the press service of the department reported that Ukrainian sabotage groups had blown up six towers of high-voltage power lines through which the Kursk NPP supplies power to civil and social infrastructure facilities in the region and neighboring subjects of the Russian Federation.
The FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is searching for criminals and their possible accomplices, the protection of objects has been strengthened in cooperation with the National Guard.
On both episodes, criminal cases were initiated under the article "Terrorist act".
On August 15, a sabotage and terrorist act was prevented 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 eliminated due to resistance to 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, who 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 were planning 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, FSB officers stopped an attempt to hijack combat aircraft of the RF Armed Forces.
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.
* "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami" ("Islamic Liberation Party") - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.
** 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).