The FSB reported on the prevention of a train bombing in Novorossiysk.

Security forces reported the arrest of a man in Novorossiysk who had assembled an explosive device and was preparing to blow up railway tracks. According to the intelligence agency, he was acting on instructions from his Ukrainian handlers.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported the arrest of a man in Novorossiysk who, on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence services, was to blow up railway tracks while a passenger train was passing, the FSB Public Relations Center reported.

"An attempt to commit a terrorist act by a Russian citizen born in 1993, acting on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence services, was thwarted in Novorossiysk," the agency's website reported.

According to the intelligence agency, SBU representatives instructed the man to blow up railway tracks while a passenger train was passing. He received instructions from his handler on how to make a bomb and assembled an explosive device, which he kept at home.

FSB officers detained the suspect while he was exploring a section of railroad track.

The Investigative Department of the FSB Directorate for Krasnodar Krai has opened a criminal case against the detainee under Part 1 of Article 30, Subparagraph "b" of Part 3 of Article 205 (preparation to commit a terrorist act) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on May 22, a suspect in the preparation of the bombing of an energy facility was detained in Novorossiysk.

Also on May 13, the court arrested two Novorossiysk residents accused of transmitting data about military facilities in Novorossiysk Bay to Ukrainian intelligence services.