[Regnum] A man detained for preparing sabotage at a defense plant in the Moscow region admitted that he was preparing to detonate two bombs disguised as power banks. Footage of his interrogation on June 9 was shown by the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the FSB of Russia.
"While working at this plant, the supervisor decided that it was necessary to commit sabotage. These were supposed to be two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) disguised as a power bank, which I had to place on two installations, which I was unable to do. I only delivered them, after which I was detained," the defendant said.
According to the detainee, he contacted the Ukrainian banned terrorist organization himself, and the curator from Ukraine offered a list of vacancies at the factories they were interested in. The defendant got a job there.
The detention of two Russians born in 1987 and 1999 on suspicion of preparing a sabotage at one of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of the Moscow region was reported on the morning of June 9 by the FSB Public Relations Center. As specified, the agency's employees detained the perpetrators when they were trying to bring an IED under the guise of power banks into the plant. Both detainees admitted that they were carrying out the instructions of the curators of the Ukrainian terrorist organization.
A criminal case has been opened on the facts of the incident. The defendants are charged with attempted sabotage, as well as illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, forwarding or carrying of explosives or explosive devices. The detainees were taken into custody.