the FSB announces having foiled a bomb attack in Yekaterinburg – RT in French

The Public Relations Center of the Federal Security Service of Russia announced on January 4 that it had arrested four teenagers who were planning to carry out a bomb attack in a popular place in Yekaterinburg. Two of them are already involved in the burning of a police vehicle in the region.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia announced on January 4 that it had arrested four teenagers “born in 2007 and 2008” who planned to commit an attack “using a homemade explosive device” in a popular place in Yekaterinburg. .

Two of them were also involved in the burning of a police car in the Sverdlovsk region, the capital of which is Yekaterinburg, the FSB said.

“Components of an improvised explosive device, as well as communications equipment containing instructions for its manufacture, were seized from them,” the FSB reported in particular.

Criminal proceedings were opened against the detainees for “preparing a terrorist act” and “illegal possession of explosives or explosive devices”.

Several announcements of attacks foiled in recent weeks

In interrogation footage released by the FSB, one of the detained teenagers said that last August he had become a ‘follower of right-wing views’ and had ‘subscribed to neo-Nazi channels’ on Telegram where he allegedly read “that it was necessary to take action against the police”.

The FSB regularly announces that it is thwarting attacks. On December 27, its press service reported that an attack in preparation in Moscow, by members of the Islamic State in Khorasan (EI-K), had been foiled.

The day before this announcement, the FSB declared having foiled “a series of attacks”, prepared by the Ukrainian security services, against “senior military officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense involved in the special military operation, and the members of their families.”