OREANDA-NEWS FSB officers detained a man and a woman who planned terrorist attacks in Crimea on the instructions of the special services of Ukraine, the department's Public Relations Center (PSC) reported.

"As a result of the measures taken, a resident of Simferopol, a Russian citizen born in 1984, was detained, who, on the instructions of the special services of Ukraine, planned to commit a terrorist act at one of the transport facilities in the Republic of Crimea, as well as aiding and abetting the sabotage group GUR MOU, which in May 2023 blew up the railway track in the Simferopol district," the CSC said in a statement. received by Interfax on Friday.

Also, the FSB noted, "a citizen of Russia and Ukraine born in 1986 was detained, recruited by the Ukrainian special services to prepare a terrorist act in Sevastopol against a serviceman of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy."

The DSP did not name the detainees.

According to the agency, during the searches, a radio-controlled improvised explosive device with high-explosive fragmentation with damaging elements, an executive device, electric detonators, a plastic explosive of foreign production were seized from the man.

"An inspection of his phone found correspondence confirming his plans to commit a terrorist act on the railway tracks in the Simferopol district of the Republic of Crimea," the message says.

It notes that the investigative department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has opened criminal cases against these persons under Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal acquisition and storage of explosives), part 1 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 205 (terrorist act) The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen."

"The defendants cooperate with the investigation and give confessions about their involvement in the preparation of terrorist acts on the instructions of the special services of Ukraine," the FSB added.