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| FSB thwarts terrorist attack at electrical substation in Nizhny Tagil |
| 2024-11-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, November 13, 2024, 09:51 — IA Regnum. Federal Security Service officers have thwarted a terrorist attack planned on orders from Kiev at a substation supplying electricity to a defense plant in Nizhny Tagil. This was reported on November 13 by the FSB press service. A Russian citizen born in 1997, who is a functionary of a pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in the country, has been detained. “During the course of the investigation, he gave a confession,” the FSB reported. He reported that Ukrainian curators promised to pay money for committing a terrorist attack on a substation supplying power to a defense plant and the infrastructure of Sverdlovsk railway facilities. He purchased Molotov cocktail components in Yekaterinburg for the arson. During his arrest, items for making homemade incendiary devices were confiscated from him. Correspondence with a representative of the Ukrainian special services was found in the Russian's account. A criminal case was opened against the detainee under Part 3 of Article 30, n. "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act"). By the court's decision, the man was taken into custody. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 12, the FSB informed about the detention of a resident of Sevastopol who tried to set fire to a section of the railway near the Balaklava thermal power plant. During interrogation, he said that he was preparing the arson on the orders of the Security Service of Ukraine. Criminal cases were opened against the man under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempt to commit a terrorist act") and Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international or foreign organization"). By the court's decision, the Crimean was placed under arrest for two months. |
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