The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) reported on the suppression of the alleged “agent” of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MO). This was reported by the Russian media with reference to the Center for Public Relations (COOs) of the FSB of Russia.
“Saboteur arrived in the Moscow region from Lithuania in March 2024 in order to withdraw components of explosive devices from a hiding place prepared by the Ukrainian special services, assembly of a home -made explosive device and performing sabotage and terrorist attacks at the military and energy infrastructure of the region,” the Russian department said .
Earlier, the agent tried to detain the agent at the time of withdrawal from a cache in the Moscow region, but he showed armed resistance and disappeared.
Later it was identified during the seizure of the next caches with the means of defeat in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, which, according to the FSB, he planned to use to commit an attack on the fuel terminal in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad Region.
“It was established that at the command of the GUR of the MO of Ukraine, the saboteur planned to perform a series of terrorist acts in Russia, including in relation to the facilities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the Moscow region, as well as participants in one of the volunteer battalions and its volunteer center in St. Petersburg “, – noted in the FSB.
“During the detention, he showed armed resistance with the use of firearms and was neutralized, the report said.
The departments noted that the agent was a Russian Russian, who was wanted earlier in the framework of the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 30, part 1 of Art. 281 (preparation for sabotage), part 1 of Art. 222.1 (illegal circulation of explosives or explosive devices) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.