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FSB prevents Ukrainian scheme attack on Russian gas pipeline
(MENAFN) Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Saturday that it had prevented what it described as an attempt orchestrated by Ukrainian operatives to sabotage a key natural gas pipeline in the Moscow region.
The FSB claimed that Ukrainian intelligence had allegedly enlisted a 56-year-old Russian citizen to carry out the attack.
“It has been established that the citizen in question was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services in 2024 while in a temporary detention center for foreigners in Ukraine, where he was placed for violating immigration laws. The agent was sent to Russia under the guise of deportation after recruitment,” the agency stated.
According to the security service, earlier this month, the suspect was contacted by his handlers and instructed to buy a car and an electric drill. Ukrainian intelligence reportedly also provided him with the location of a dead drop, where he collected improvised explosive devices hidden inside construction glue tubes. The suspect was apprehended while attempting to drill into the ground above the pipeline to plant the explosives. Following the attack, he had reportedly planned to exit Russia and return to Ukraine via third countries.
Authorities in Moscow have frequently accused Ukrainian operatives of carrying out sabotage campaigns targeting Russian infrastructure during the ongoing conflict.
In a similar incident earlier this week, reports indicated that two men acting on behalf of a “terrorist group and in coordination with Ukrainian special services” tried to place a derailment device on a railway bridge connecting Novoaltaysk and Biysk. The suspects were killed in a firefight with FSB officers.
Russian officials have warned that, as battlefield conditions worsen for Ukrainian forces, Kiev appears increasingly reliant on terrorist tactics. Compounding the situation for Ukraine, the government has been mired in a major corruption scandal involving President Zelensky’s inner circle, resulting in the resignation of two ministers and Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak.
The FSB claimed that Ukrainian intelligence had allegedly enlisted a 56-year-old Russian citizen to carry out the attack.
“It has been established that the citizen in question was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services in 2024 while in a temporary detention center for foreigners in Ukraine, where he was placed for violating immigration laws. The agent was sent to Russia under the guise of deportation after recruitment,” the agency stated.
According to the security service, earlier this month, the suspect was contacted by his handlers and instructed to buy a car and an electric drill. Ukrainian intelligence reportedly also provided him with the location of a dead drop, where he collected improvised explosive devices hidden inside construction glue tubes. The suspect was apprehended while attempting to drill into the ground above the pipeline to plant the explosives. Following the attack, he had reportedly planned to exit Russia and return to Ukraine via third countries.
Authorities in Moscow have frequently accused Ukrainian operatives of carrying out sabotage campaigns targeting Russian infrastructure during the ongoing conflict.
In a similar incident earlier this week, reports indicated that two men acting on behalf of a “terrorist group and in coordination with Ukrainian special services” tried to place a derailment device on a railway bridge connecting Novoaltaysk and Biysk. The suspects were killed in a firefight with FSB officers.
Russian officials have warned that, as battlefield conditions worsen for Ukrainian forces, Kiev appears increasingly reliant on terrorist tactics. Compounding the situation for Ukraine, the government has been mired in a major corruption scandal involving President Zelensky’s inner circle, resulting in the resignation of two ministers and Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak.
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