FSB: ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’ thrice blew up power transmission tower masts near Kursk Nuclear Power Plant

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims that Ukraine’s subversive groups thrice blew up power transmission tower masts on the way to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, which led to the disruption in the plant’s work, reports Russian state news agency TASS, citing the FSB press service. 

“On 4, 9, and 12 August, Ukrainian subversive groups blew up six masts of electric power transmission towers (110, 330, and 750 kV), through which the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant provides electricity to industrial facilities, transport and life-support objects, social infrastructure, and the population of the Kursk region and other neighbouring regions,” the statement reads.

FSB notes that, as a result of the subversion, the “technological process of the nuclear power plant” has been disrupted. The central office of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation into the terrorist act. FSB and the Internal Affairs Ministry agents are looking for suspects, while Russia’s National Guard has tightened security of the nuclear power objects. 

Yesterday, 15 August, FSB said to have prevented a terrorist attack on an oil pipeline in the Volgograd region, the preparation for which, allegedly, the Ukrainian special services had been controlling.

“Two Russian citizens, members of the ultra right group Restruct created by a neo-Nazi video blogger Maxim Martsinkevich (alias Tesak), were neutralised after they had put up armed resistance during the operation to stop the attempt to blow up the oil pipeline,” the statement read.

FSB also claimed that an associate of Tesak, Andrey Chuenkov, and a member of the Azov regiment, Ukrainian citizen, Yuriy Ionov, had helped to organise the terrorist attack. According to Chuenkov, he is currently in Kyiv, while Ionov was killed defending Mariupol.