“We were preparing on the instructions of Ukrainian neo-Nazis”: the FSB prevented terrorist attacks on the railway in the Sverdlovsk region

In the Sverdlovsk region, three people were detained who were preparing a terrorist attack on the instructions of Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

This was reported by the Center for Public Relations of the FSB.

“The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained three Russian citizens involved in the preparation and commission of terrorist acts at railway infrastructure facilities in the Sverdlovsk Region for a monetary reward on the instructions of Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” the report says.

The press service of the law enforcement agency noted that during searches at the addresses of the detainees, the weapons of crime, the symbols of the Ukrainian nationalist armed formation, as well as communication and communication facilities containing the location maps of the objects of the Russian Railways branch - the Sverdlovsk Railway were seized.

Criminal cases under Art.

205 (“Act of terrorism”) and 205.1 (“Assistance to terrorist activities”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Attackers face punishment from 12 years to life imprisonment.

The FSB also released a video in which the detainees give confessions.

• Video of the detention of malefactors in the Sverdlovsk region

The activities of the FSB to counter the Ukrainian special services

On January 25, RIA Novosti reported that the Russian security forces had cut off a channel for financing SBU employees involved in organizing terrorist attacks in the Kherson region.

We are talking about the banks of the EU states, including the Baltic countries, as well as depersonalized safe deposit boxes rented from banks in Poland and the Czech Republic.

On January 23, an attempt to commit a crime of a terrorist nature was thwarted on the territory of the North Caucasian Federal District.

It was prepared on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services by a Russian citizen - a supporter of nationalist ideology.

On January 22, it became known that the security forces had detained a resident of the Alyoshkovsky district of the Kherson region.

The man passed information about the whereabouts of Russian servicemen to his relative to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who later provided the obtained data to the Ukrainian army.

Antiterrorist activity of the FSB

On January 30, FSB officers detained three teenagers from Chekhov who damaged railway infrastructure facilities in the Moscow Region on the Kursk line.

Eighth grade students were given the task to damage the transport infrastructure of the Russian Railways from unknown persons via Telegram, who promised them a monetary reward.

On January 25, a local resident was detained in Crimea, suspected of participating in the illegal armed formation “Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion.

Noman Chelebidzhikhan"*.

He faces up to 15 years in prison.

On January 23, six members of a cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami** were detained on the Crimean peninsula.

The detainees carried out purposeful work to spread terrorist ideology on the territory of the Russian Federation.

On January 20, a criminal case was initiated against a 48-year-old resident of Kerch on charges of public calls for extremist activities committed using the Internet.

He faces up to five years in prison for a comment published on the Odnoklassniki social network calling for the murder of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

On January 19, a criminal case was opened against a US citizen under the article "Espionage".

According to the FSB, the American is suspected of collecting intelligence information on biological topics directed against the security of the Russian Federation.

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** "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.