The FSB says that on April 18, law enforcement officers prevented a terrorist attack targeting the leadership of Roskomnadzor. The agency’s Center for Public Relations reported this.
According to the FSB, a 21-year-old Moscow resident was preparing to blow up the car of one of RKN’s senior officials; the service said he was killed on the spot.
The agency also reported the detention of seven “supporters of right-wing radical and neo-fascist ideology” in Moscow, Ufa, Novosibirsk, and Yaroslavl. The FSB believes that Ukrainian intelligence services recruited them via Telegram to carry out the crime.
It is claimed that during searches, officers found improvised explosive devices weighing 1 kg, an F-1 grenade, a PM pistol with a silencer, two gas pistols, radios, “neo-Nazi paraphernalia” and Ukrainian military symbols, as well as “instructions for joining a Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation.” Criminal cases have been opened.
“Ukrainian intelligence services are seeking to disrupt Roskomnadzor’s measures to ensure the security of the information space, including the blocking of Telegram, which is massively used by the enemy for sabotage and terrorist, extremist, cyber-fraud, and other serious crimes,” the FSB said.