Three detained in Sverdlovsk Region for planning railway terror attack

In Sverdlovsk Region, officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained three people who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack on the railway.

“The Federal Security Service (FSB) in Sverdlovsk Region has detained three Russian citizens born in 1979, 1981, and 1984, who were planning to set fire to a transport infrastructure facility on the instructions of Ukrainian special services,” noted the FSB«s Public Relations Center (PRC).

It is specified that the detainees contacted an employee of Ukrainian special services on Telegram and received from him a task to carry out a terrorist attack. Gadgets containing correspondence with a curator, as well as instructions and components for making homemade incendiary devices, were seized from them.

A criminal case has been initiated against the perpetrators under Part 1 of Article 30 and Part 2 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (preparation for a terrorist act). They face up to 20 years in prison. They have been placed in custody.

Law enforcement officers are gathering evidence to reclassify the crimes under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code (state treason), which provides for punishment up to life imprisonment.

In December, we reported that two teenagers would be tried in Yekaterinburg, who are accused of a terrorist attack at a railway station.

At the beginning of last year, three teenagers were detained in Yekaterinburg who were preparing a terrorist attack, according to investigators. They also confessed to setting fire to a police car, and moreover, they were accused of manufacturing explosives. Earlier we reported that law enforcement officers detained another Urals resident who was preparing a terrorist attack in the Moscow Region.