Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a 43-year-old Russian citizen on suspicion of blowing up a gas pipeline in Crimea, the Russian domestic intelligence agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
“In June 2022, the suspect was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services while he was in the city of Pavlohrad, Dnipro region, took a reconnaissance and sabotage training course, and was sent to Crimea,” the FSB statement said.
The agency believes that the man sabotaged a gas pipeline in the Crimean village of Koreiz on 23 June by using an improvised explosive device he had received from a third party.
The security agents also reported seizing 2kg of foreign-made C-4 explosive and related materials from his garage.
The accused is now facing a criminal case on charges of committing a terrorist attack and illegally storing explosives. He has been remanded in custody.