Interfax: a car driver threatens to commit [Roskomnadzor] near the Kremlin

In Moscow, on Vasilyevsky Spusk, a man in a car threatens to commit [Roskomnadzor], reports , citing an informed source. Interfax

“A man in a Mercedes-Gelendvagen tried to drive under the brick into Red Square, demands a meeting with the country’s leadership and threatens to commit suicide,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Now they are negotiating with the man. An Interfax correspondent reports that the police have cordoned off the territory of Vasilyevsky Spusk. He suggested that the car with the man was located near St. Basil's Cathedral. A source from the Moscow agency said that Vasilievsky Spusk was cordoned off after a bomb threat was reported.

According to unconfirmed information from the 112 telegram channel, a 41-year-old resident of Primorye, Dmitry Shalay, is in the car. A man threatens to blow up a gas cylinder. Mash claims that the driver demands a personal meeting with the head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov.

Later, the press service of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs told TASS that the police detained a man who threatened to blow up a car - he himself surrendered to the security forces. The investigation is deciding whether to conduct a medical and psychiatric examination of the detainee and initiate a criminal case.

Updated at 4:15 p.m. The news was supplemented by a commentary from the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.