Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia detained a resident of Tver who intended to join one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This is stated in the message of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Tver region.
According to the agency, a Russian citizen born in 1982 was preparing to leave for Ukraine to participate in hostilities against the Russian Armed Forces.
As specified in the FSB, the detainee remotely maintained contact with the representative of Ukraine.
He, in turn, gave the Russian citizen recommendations on choosing a route to enter the territory of Ukraine, as well as on purchasing medical supplies, military equipment and uniforms.
Subsequently, the man was detained at the Tver railway station while trying to leave in the direction of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
A criminal case was opened against the detainee under Part 1 of Art.
30 and Art.
275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (preparation to commit high treason in the form of going over to the side of the enemy).
He was taken into custody.
FSB officers detained a resident of Tver who planned to join the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The FSB systematically reports on preventive detentions of Russians who intended to join the ranks of armed groups in Ukraine.
In early January, another such case was reported to the FSB of Russia in the Bryansk region.
The department, together with employees of the regional border department of the FSB, identified and stopped attempts by a citizen of the Russian Federation to join an armed formation abroad in order to harm the Russian Federation.
It was reported that during 2022 the detainee repeatedly tried to travel to Ukraine through Belarus in order to take part in the hostilities on the side of Kyiv.
In this regard, he was previously given an official warning about the inadmissibility of actions that create conditions for committing high treason.
The citizen was detained during another attempt to leave Russia for Ukraine, after which he was charged with preparing to commit treason in the form of going over to the side of the enemy.
In addition, in mid-December 2022, the department spoke about the detention of a resident of Khakassia, who decided to go over to the side of the enemy and take part in the hostilities.
According to the FSB, for this purpose, the detainee committed acts of vandalism against the administrative buildings of the regional authorities, as a result of which he was brought to justice under the relevant article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to the agency, while trying to leave through the territory of one of the CIS countries to Ukraine to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the attacker was detained at the Krasnoyarsk airport.
In September 2022, the Moscow and Moscow Region Department of the FSB of Russia announced the arrest of a man who planned to join the Ukrainian extremist nationalist organization Right Sector* and travel to Ukraine to take part in hostilities against Russia.
He did not have time to realize his plan: he was detained by employees of the state security agencies.
During the search at his place of residence, communications equipment and special military equipment, as well as nationalist literature and symbols, were found and confiscated.
Another direction of the FSB's work is issuing warnings to persons intending to commit treason.
In particular, in October, the FSB warned a resident of the Ulyanovsk region who was going to work for the SBU.
According to the department, a local resident was recruited by a foreign intelligence service to obtain information about the deployment of units of the Russian Armed Forces and provided abroad with well-known information obtained from open sources.
In August, the department spoke about citizens convicted of transferring money to a Ukrainian fund that helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine with drones and thermal imagers.
They, too, received an official warning.
* "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).