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| FSB thwarts attempted terrorist attack on SBU orders near Balaklava TPP |
| 2024-11-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Federal Security Service officers detained a resident of Sevastopol who, on instructions from Ukrainian curators, tried to set fire to a section of the railway near the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant. The FSB reported this on November 12. "The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has prevented an attempt to commit a terrorist act at a transport infrastructure facility in Sevastopol near the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant," the agency reported. The arson was planned by a 29-year-old resident of Sevastopol. He approached a representative of the Security Service of Ukraine on his own initiative in September last year. The Sevastopol resident was given the task of disrupting the operation of railway transport. To do this, he had to set fire to specialized equipment. The man received money from his handler and used it to buy flammable liquid. He did not manage to complete the SBU assignment: FSB officers detained him at the crime scene. The FSB Investigative Department opened criminal cases against the Crimean under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international, or foreign organization”), Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Attempted terrorist act”). As reported by the Regnum news agency, in early November a local resident was detained in Crimea who was transmitting data to Kiev about the location of military facilities in Feodosia. He was photographing air defense systems. The man himself contacted the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. A criminal case was opened against him under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("High Treason"). On November 8, the FSB detained a resident of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, suspected of collaborating with a Ukrainian terrorist group. He transmitted data on defense industry facilities and military registration and enlistment offices to Kiev, and hid components for making a Molotov cocktail in the forest, acquired on instructions from his curators. A criminal case was opened against the man under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”). |
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