Security forces reported preventing a terrorist attack in Krasnodar.

A Ukrainian citizen detained in Krasnodar was planning a terrorist attack on a railway to disrupt the transport of military equipment to the SVO zone, the FSB reported.

Officers of the FSB Directorate for Krasnodar Krai detained a Ukrainian citizen who, according to the agency, was planning a terrorist attack in Krasnodar at a transport infrastructure facility on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence agencies, the agency's press service reported.

"It has been established that a Ukrainian citizen residing in Krasnodar Krai was recruited through a banned social network by a Ukrainian security service officer, who instructed him to commit a terrorist attack by blowing up railway tracks with an improvised explosive device in order to disrupt the transport of military equipment and weapons to the special military operation zone," Interfax quoted the agency as saying.

Communications devices were seized from the detainee, which contained correspondence with his handler. A homemade explosive device intended for use in blowing up railway tracks was discovered in a specially prepared cache.

A criminal case has been opened under Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 (preparation to commit a terrorist act), and Subsection "c" of Part 3 of Article 222.1 (illegal acquisition of an explosive device using the internet) of the Russian Criminal Code.

The detainee said he memorized all the details of the preparation for the purpose of secrecy. "The supervisor wrote the technical specifications (TOR - Caucasian Knot note), and I responded. They asked me when I could complete the work, explained the TOR, the cache, that is, the most simple, concise instructions. I confirmed it. A few hours before I raised the cache, they sent me information on where to raise it. For the sake of secrecy, I had to memorize everything and delete it, so that no data would remain," the detainee said in interrogation footage, which Izvestia published, among other things, on its Telegram channel.

As Caucasian Knot reported, security forces previously charged a man detained in a case involving the preparation of sabotage on a railway in Krasnodar Krai with terrorism.

Similar criminal cases often feature similar wording: allegedly "unidentified individuals" force teenagers or young adults to film arson and then send them to the "customer." This plotline in a large number of criminal cases suggests that investigators have found a simple way to prove crimes, as Roman Melnichenko, a candidate of legal sciences, previously noted.

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