MOSCOW: Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) stated on Tuesday (Dec 10) it had detained a twin Russian-German citizen on suspicion of getting ready an act of sabotage on a railroad in Nizhny Novgorod, a metropolis some 450km east of Moscow.
The FSB didn’t title the person, however stated he was born in 2003. It stated authorities had discovered an improvised explosive system (IED) at his dwelling, in addition to proof he had corresponded with a member of Ukrainian particular companies.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence and state safety service didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Russian officers have linked pro-Ukrainian sabotage teams with quite a few assaults on railways aimed toward disrupting provides to the battle entrance in Ukraine because the struggle started in February 2022.
Ukraine’s home spy company has additionally been accused of detonating explosives on railway traces inside Russia.
Russian navy information outlet Zvezda printed video on Tuesday purporting to indicate the Russian-German man, whose face was blurred out, confessing to the crime. It was not clear if the person confessed below duress.
Within the video, he stated he had arrived in Russia in 2023 and had met a person named Artyom on-line, who turned out to be “a member of the Ukrainian particular companies”.
He stated the person paid him to set hearth to a fuse field and draw pro-Ukrainian graffiti. “The final activity he proposed to me was to explode, nicely, derail a prepare, a freight prepare,” the person stated within the video.
The FSB stated a prison case had been opened towards him. It stated it had detained different people alongside the Russian-German nationwide, however didn’t present particulars on them.
The German overseas ministry didn’t instantly reply to a remark request.
Final month, the FSB detained German citizen Nikolai Gaiduk on suspicion of explosives-smuggling and terrorism, accusing him of blowing up a pipe at a gasoline distribution station in Russia’s Kaliningrad Baltic Sea exclave earlier this yr.
