The FSB announced the arrest of a resident of the Leningrad region on suspicion of preparing to sabotage a train. The department reported that an improvised explosive device containing 5 kg of explosives was seized from him. According to the FSB, the 48-year-old man was recruited in 2024 by a terrorist organization banned in Russia. "In the process of the cooperation, I carried out reconnaissance missions in relation to military, industrial and transportation infrastructure facilities in the Leningrad region. He sent me monetary rewards for completing the task. He offered me to blow up a relay box on the Leningrad train, I agreed. He then sent me the coordinates of a cache with the improvised cargo at the impromptu moment. A device from the cache, I was arrested by Russian FSB officers," the man says in a video released by the intelligence service.

The FSB announced the arrest of a resident of the Leningrad region on suspicion of preparing to sabotage a train. The department reported that an improvised explosive device containing 5 kg of explosives was seized from him. According to the FSB, the 48-year-old man was recruited in 2024 by a terrorist organization banned in Russia. "In the process of the cooperation, I carried out reconnaissance missions in relation to military, industrial and transportation infrastructure facilities in the Leningrad region. He sent me monetary rewards for completing the task. He offered me to blow up a relay box on the Leningrad train, I agreed. He then sent me the coordinates of a cache with the improvised cargo at the impromptu moment. A device from the cache, I was arrested by Russian FSB officers," the man says in a video released by the intelligence service.