The Public Relations Center (PSC) of the FSB of Russia reported on the prevention of the explosion of a gas distribution station in the Leningrad region, planned by the Ukrainian special services.
“As a result of processing the received signal about the appearance of a suspicious person in the area of the gas distribution station and timely coordinated actions, the criminal was identified and detained. He turned out to be a foreign citizen, Ukrainian by nationality,” the CSO said in a statement.
It is noted that five ready-to-use improvised explosive devices, which he tried to plant at a pipeline junction, were confiscated and neutralized from the detainee.
In a video distributed by the FSB, the detainee stated that he acted on instructions from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
“I ended up on Russian territory on instructions from the SBU. The goal was to damage the pipeline by blasting,” he said. The detainee also clarified that he received the coordinates of the storage location of the explosive device via Telegram.
A day earlier, the FSB Central Operations Center reported the detention of a Belarusian citizen involved in the arson of a traction electrical substation of Tula City Electric Networks JSC in Tula on instructions from the Ukrainian special services.
As the department clarified, the detainee, who had previously served a sentence in Belarus for hooliganism with the use of weapons, explosives or flammable substances, established contact with an employee of the Ukrainian special services in January.
Later, the man arrived in Tula, where he made a homemade incendiary device and set fire to an electrical substation. According to the FSB, he provided a report on these actions to the curator, for which he received a monetary reward and the next task - arson at a transformer electrical substation and pumping station in Voronezh.
In addition, on February 5, the FSB reported the prevention of a terrorist attack against one of the leaders in Crimea. Security forces detained a group of people who were preparing to blow up the car of one of the local government representatives. The attackers found several explosive devices made using foreign components.
More than 400 terrorist crimes prevented since the beginning of the SVO
On February 13, a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee was held, during which the chairman of the NAC, director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, presented data on terrorist activity in the Russian Federation.
According to him, international terrorist organizations, against the backdrop of the SVO, have intensified recruitment via the Internet, trying to find potential perpetrators of terrorist crimes.
As Bortnikov clarified, Western intelligence services and the Ukrainian centers of information and psychological operations controlled by them are seeking to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities.
“Since the beginning of the SVO, 419 terrorist crimes have been prevented, which were prepared by persons recruited by international terrorist organizations, Ukrainian special services and neo-Nazi organizations or who fell under the influence of anti-Russian propaganda,” the NAC statement says.
Along with this, as part of countering the massive spread of terrorist and extremist content on the Internet, more than 360 thousand extremist materials were identified and removed, and access to 70 thousand pages was blocked.