MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has apprehended an individual suspected of blowing up two freight trains at the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Buryatia and the suspect gave confessionary evidence, the FSB press office reported on Thursday.

"A terrorist act plotted by Ukrainian special services and directed at destroying critical transport and energy infrastructure has been exposed. During measures carried out in the Omsk Region, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus born in 1971 was apprehended. He blew up two trains carrying petroleum products along the Taishet-Tynda and Taishet-Neryungri routes at the Baikal Amur Railway section in the Republic of Buryatia on November 29 and 30, 2023," the press office said in a statement.

The suspect "gave confessionary evidence that on an assignment from a Belarusian citizen born in 1981, living in Lithuania and acting under the control of Ukrainian special services, he took away eight explosives from a cache, delivered them in his car to Buryatia and planted them on freight trains’ oil tanks," the press office specified.

As the freight trains passed through the Severomuysky tunnel and its encircling route, the explosives went off, setting fire to petroleum product tanks and suspending railway traffic, it said.

"Further measures are underway to check the detainee’s complicity in committing other terror acts on the territory of the Russian Federation on an assignment from Ukrainian special services," the FSB press office reported.