OREANDA-NEWS  The FSB of the Russian Federation reported the detention in the Perm Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Rostov Region of Russians who were preparing terrorist attacks on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services and passed secret information to Ukraine.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, as a result of a complex of operational search measures on the territory of a number of subjects of the Russian Federation, suppressed the criminal activities of citizens of Russia and Ukraine who assisted the Security Service and the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the special service said.

According to her, the detentions took place in the Perm Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region, and the Rostov Region.

The detainees are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks and sabotage, collecting and transmitting secret information to Ukraine. And one of them, according to the FSB, handed over to the Ukrainian side "data on the deployment of Russian military personnel and information on the movements of military equipment, as a result, a missile strike by MLRS "Haimars" was carried out by the AFU units at the coordinates transmitted.

"The investigative unit of the FSB of Russia has initiated criminal cases against the above-mentioned persons under Article 275 ("high treason in the form of espionage", "high treason in the form of providing other assistance to representatives of a foreign state") and Article 276 ("espionage") The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," the FSB said.

They reported that an SBU agent group from among Russian citizens Dmitry Strelkov, Mikhail Sokolov and Alexey Gashev was exposed on the territory of the Perm Territory, "whose tasks included preparing, carrying out terrorist attacks and sabotage on the territory of Russia."

"The organizer of the group's activities was Strelkov, an active participant in the right-wing extremist organization National Socialism/White Power (banned in Russia), which in 2019, evading criminal responsibility for previously committed extremist crimes, left for Ukraine, where he was recruited by the SBU. Using his social circle in Russian nationalist cells, he attracted Sokolov and Gashev to work in the interests of the Ukrainian special service," the FSB noted.

During the operational search activities, it was established that "these persons, acting on the instructions of the SBU, carried out preparations for terrorist attacks and sabotage against socially significant objects and infrastructure of Perm, and also provided other assistance to the Ukrainian special service in order to destabilize the socio-political situation in the region," the special service reported.