The ethos was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The fire of the transformer substation occurred on Lermontov Street.

Officers of the district police and the Center for Countering Extremism identified and detained the suspects, they turned out to be three men aged 23 to 26 years.

One of the detainees said that he was in the community of a popular messenger, where he found a job ad, after which an unknown person contacted him and offered to commit arson for a monetary reward. To do this, a resident of the Irkutsk region attracted his acquaintances.

In May, FSB officers stopped the preparation of a terrorist attack in Samara, where a native of Ukraine was going to transfer funds for arson to an unidentified person, which was planned to be committed in the city center, on Kuibyshev Square, during the International Anti-Fascist Festival.