MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained two individuals in Crimea who were recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services to commit terrorist attacks, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS.
"A resident of Simferopol, a Russian citizen born in 1984, was detained, who, on orders of the Ukrainian secret services, was plotting a terror attack on one of the transportation facilities in the Republic of Crimea as well as abetting a sabotage group from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate that blew up railroad tracks in the Simferopol District in May 2023," the press service said. The law enforcement authorities seized a homemade, radio-controlled, blast-fragmentation explosive device, electric blasting caps and a foreign-made plastic explosive substance from the suspect. As well, his telephone was found to contain correspondence confirming his plans to carry out a terrorist attack on a railroad in Crimea’s Simferopol District.
"A woman with Russian and Ukrainian citizenship was also detained, who had been recruited by the Ukrainian secret services to plan a terrorist attack in Sevastopol against a serviceman of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet," the FSB press service added. "The perpetrators are cooperating with investigators, admitting their involvement in the planning of terror attacks on the instructions of the Ukrainian secret services," the FSB stressed.
The investigative department of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol has brought charges against them under Russian Criminal Code Article 222.1 (Part 1) ("Illegal Acquisition and Possession of Explosive Substances"), Article 30 (Part 3) ("Plotting and Attempting a Crime") and Article 205 (Part 1) ("Plotting a Terror Attack"). The suspects have been taken into custody.
"The FSB is taking measures to thwart sabotage and terrorist activities by agents of the Ukrainian secret services on the Crimean Peninsula," the FSB Public Relations Center concluded.