FSB claims to have prevented terrorist attack organised by Ukraine on Volgograd region oil pipeline

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has said to have prevented a terrorist attack on an oil pipeline in the Volgograd region, the preparation for which, allegedly, the Ukrainian special services had been controlling, reports Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, citing the FSB Public Relations Centre.

“Two Russian citizens, members of the ultra right group Restruct created by a neo-Nazi video blogger Maxim Martsinkevich (alias Tesak), were neutralised after they had put up armed resistance during the operation to stop the attempt to blow up the oil pipeline,” the centre’s statement reads.

The FSB agents also report to have seized a high-power homemade bomb and two traumatic pistols, remade to be able to shoot live rounds.

The Public Relations Centre claims that the explosion was being prepared under control of the Ukrainian special services. The actual preparations for the terrorist attack were being made by Restruct’s member, Russian citizen Andrey Chuenkov, born in 1986, “currently involved in the fighting in Ukraine as part of the Uragan national battalion”. His accomplice, according to FSB, is a Ukrainian citizen Yuriy Ionov, born in 1988, member of the Azov regiment who has, allegedly, a “close connection to the regiment’s founder Andriy Biletsky”.

FSB reports to have taken “actions to intercept criminal activities of Chuenkov and Ionov and track down their accomplices on the Russian territory”.

On 5 August, FSB reported to have detained a local man from the Russian city of Cherkessk, born in 1992, who had, allegedly, been planning to carry out a terrorist attack in a prosecutor’s office and an enlistment office “under the patronage of organisation Right Sector”.

The agents claim that two homemade explosive devices, with a force equivalent of around three kilograms of TNT, components for making IEDs, and schemes of the entry points in the prosecutor’s office and enlistment office were discovered in the detainee’s place and in his “stash”.