Preventive sight

The Federal Security Service announced the detention in Moscow and St. Petersburg ten participants in the sabotage and terrorist group. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

"The Federal Security Service with the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and in collaboration with foreign partners from the Republic of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the activities of the interregional terrorist group consisting of immigrants of the Central Asian region who planned to make a series of resonant sabotage and terrorist actions in the city of Moscow and the city of St. Petersburg with the use of automatic weapons and home-made explosive explosives Great capacity, ”the special services said in a statement.

"They found and seized four home -made explosive devices of high power, filled with damaging elements, initiation tools, firearms, ammunition, as well as communications, - it was planned to commit terrorist shares in order to destroy civilians in places of mass location of people."

The detainees testify about contacts with the leaders of the Islamic State in the Middle Eastern region, “as well as in relation to accomplices and an accomplishment base, both in the Russian Federation and abroad,” the special services report.

The FSB regularly announces the prevention of terrorist attacks. On May 4, the special service announced the detention of a group of citizens of the Central Asian countries that planned to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in the Moscow region. "As a result of the complex of operational -search activities in the city of Moscow, a group of citizens of the Central Asian countries was detained, planning to implement a series of terrorist acts in the Moscow region during the May holidays on the instructions of the leaders of international terrorist organizations operating in Syria and Turkey, the FSB Central Union reported, explosive substances and other means of other means Terrorist activities.