MOSCOW, January 5. /TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Russian national involved in a sabotage attempt at a Defense Ministry’s facility on the instruction of Ukrainian special services, the FSB Center of Public Communications told TASS.

"The Federal Security Service detained a Russian national involved in an attempt of committing a sabotage act in January 2024 on the instruction of Ukrainian special services at a facility of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Chelyabinsk Region. The saboteur was recruited on the Internet via social networks," the Center said.

Furthermore, it was also ascertained that he was involved in arson attacks against communications and rail infrastructure facilities in Dagestan committed in November and December 2023.