The FSB stated in a press release that the detainee collected and passed on the Ukrainian side information about officials of the region’s civil-military administration.

Following the instructions of the General Intelligence Directorate at the Defense Ministry in Ukraine, this accomplice carried out an assassination attempt by planting an improvised explosive device, the security agency’s note stated.

Police forces informed that an improvised explosive device was found and confiscated in the suspect’s house.

The FSB investigative department for the Zaporozhye region opened two criminal cases against the detainee for high treason, terrorist act, and illegal manufacture of explosives.

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