The Federal Security Service detained an employee of one of the private security companies, who intended to take part in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow region, the man planned to go to Ukraine to "improve his financial situation", and also looked for accomplices among colleagues.

"Taking into account the fact that the actions of this citizen were directed against the security of Russia and created conditions for committing a crime under Art. 280.4 of the Criminal Code "Public calls for the implementation of activities directed against the security of the state", he was officially warned about the inadmissibility of such actions," the report said.

"As a result of the operational-search activities, the citizen was detained and confessed," the press service noted.

The FSB recalled that Russian legislation provides for criminal punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 18 years for the participation of a mercenary in an armed conflict or hostilities, as well as for recruiting, training, financing or otherwise providing for a mercenary.

The FSB systematically reports on the facts of the suppression of terrorist attacks prepared with the participation of the Ukrainian special services, as well as on cases of detention of informants in Kiev. So, on April 19, the department told about the prevention of sabotage being prepared in Kerch at one of the facilities of the energy system of the Crimean peninsula. As a result, a citizen of Russia and Ukraine, born in 1971, involved in the preparation of the crime, was detained.

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An improvised explosive device and communication equipment containing correspondence with a representative of the special services of Ukraine, who coordinated his criminal activities, were seized from him. Criminal cases have been initiated against the detainee under the articles "Preparation for sabotage" and "Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of explosives or explosive devices".

In early March, FSB officers detained a resident of Moscow, who is suspected of treason in connection with the provision of financial assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the agency, the suspect was detained while trying to travel outside Russia.

Earlier in the same month, a local resident was detained in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, who proactively tried to transfer information about Russian military facilities in the Khabarovsk Territory to a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to the FSB, these data could be used to carry out sabotage and terrorist acts, strikes with high-precision weapons and drones in the areas of loading, maintenance and on the routes of military equipment.

A criminal case was opened against the detainee on suspicion of committing a crime under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("High Treason").

At the end of February, the FSB also reported the detention of two residents of Sevastopol, who proactively established contact with the special services of Ukraine to transfer data on the location of the objects of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for a monetary reward. As noted in the department, the leakage of this information abroad could damage the country's defense capability.

One of the detainees collected data on the location of military facilities and passed this information to the Ukrainian side by e-mail. The second suspect confirmed his readiness to cooperate confidentially with the SBU, but did not have time to transfer the data due to circumstances beyond his control.

In mid-February, the FSB announced the detention of a Ukrainian citizen involved in sabotage at the infrastructure of the Moscow railway. According to the agency, the SBU recruited a saboteur on the territory of Poland with the direct participation of the special services of this country, and his training was carried out in Riga together with the employees of the special services of Latvia.

According to the FSB, at the end of November 2022, the attacker under the guise of a refugee was sent from Latvia to Russia in order to legalize and obtain Russian citizenship. Subsequently, at the command of a curator from the SBU, he set fire to two alarm cabinets, centralization and automatic blocking of the Moscow Railway at night.