MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have thwarted a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Region as an explosion outside a military agency involving a German national was being plotted, the FSB revealed.
"A terrorist plot by the Kiev regime, targeting a facility of the Stavropol Region’s law enforcement agency and involving a German woman, born in 1969, has been thwarted," the FSB said.
An explosive device was detected and neutralized in the woman’s backpack outside a law enforcement facility in Pyatigorsk. After she was detained, a technical inspection of her bag by mine specialists showed that an improvised explosive device, equivalent to 1.5 kg of TNT, was equipped with damaging elements.
Also, a native of a Central Asian republic, born in 1997, a supporter of radicalism, "who was supposed to detonate the explosive device remotely" was exposed. The German suicide bomber was to die on the spot.
Coordination via Ukraine
"The actions of the man, disguised as a member of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, were coordinated by agents of Ukrainian special services. The female German national was involved in terrorist activity and exploited by the enemy as a carrier in organizing fraudulent schemes against Russian citizens for a long period of time," the FSB continued.
The idea was to carry out a terrorist act in the morning hours to cause as many fatalities among law enforcement officers as possible, the FSB added.
According to the FSB, the detainees have already confessed and stated that they had taken the explosives from caches established by Ukrainian special services earlier.
A criminal case has been opened.