Russia’s FSB foils terrorist attack in military enlistment office in Tver

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has prevented an attempted terrorist attack on a military enlistment office in Tver by a Ukrainian special services agent.

Following the FSB necessary operation, the agent was neutralized, TASS reports, citing the FSB Public Relations Center (PSC).

"On the territory of the Tver region, the preparation of a terrorist act planned by the Ukrainian special services with the participation of a recruited Russian citizen who was a member of a banned Ukrainian nationalist formation has been prevented," the PSC said.

"Acting on the instructions of the curators, [he] seized weapons of destruction and an improvised explosive device from a cache previously equipped for him in order to detonate it in the building of the military commissariat of Tver. During the arrest, the attacker offered armed resistance and was neutralized," the FSB noted.

Security officials and civilians were not injured, the PSC noted. A ready-to-use improvised explosive device and an RGD-5 grenade were found at the scene. A criminal case has been opened on the case of preparation for a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As noted in the FSB, it was established that earlier "an agent of the Ukrainian special services collected and transmitted information regarding military facilities and the fuel and energy infrastructure of the region for material remuneration."