FSB officers prevented a terrorist attack in the Moscow region, Interfax reported on Monday with reference to the information center of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.

“Decisive actions by law enforcement forces stopped an attempt to carry out a terrorist attack in the capital,” the department reports. As noted, during the prevention of the terrorist attack, two militants were killed, one militant was detained.

“The indicated criminals, citizens of the Russian Federation, arrived from the Afghan-Pakistan region, where they underwent combat training and were preparing to commit a terrorist attack,” the NAC said in a statement.

As the department reported, the FSB, while checking operational information about the preparation of a terrorist attack in Moscow by a group of three militants, established the location of the bandits in one of the houses in the city of Orekhova-Zueva. As the department reported, the militants were blocked by FSB officers - in response to an offer to surrender, they opened fire. “As a result of a quick clash, two of them were destroyed and one was detained. A special forces officer was slightly wounded,” the NAC reported.

According to the statement, there were no casualties among the civilian population during the special operation. An operational investigation team is working at the site where the militants were detained.

According to a source in law enforcement agencies, those neutralized in the Moscow region were preparing a terrorist attack at one of the mass events in Moscow, but thanks to timely operational information, these plans were foiled.

Another source in law enforcement agencies reported earlier that the suspects in the preparation of a terrorist attack in Moscow, killed during detention, underwent special training in the North Waziristan region (northwestern mountainous region of Pakistan - Forbes). According to intelligence services, the main forces of the Taliban extremist group are operating in Waziristan. There are also terrorist training camps that attract people from all over the world. In addition, information about the possible involvement of militants in the terrorist movement “Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan” is currently being verified.

According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin was informed about the operation to neutralize the terrorists who were preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow.

FSB prevented terrorist attack in Moscow