Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had thwarted a planned bomb attack on a law enforcement facility in the Stavropol Krai, blaming a German citizen born in 1969 who it said was acting on orders from Ukrainian intelligence.
The FSB said in a statement from its public affairs center, quoted by Russian state agencies including the Russian state news agency Interfax, that the woman had been carrying a bomb toward a law enforcement facility in Pyatigorsk. Electronic warfare equipment detected and disabled the device, the FSB said.
The attack had been timed for the morning hours to maximize casualties among law enforcement personnel, the FSB said.
A citizen of one of the Central Asian republics was to have detonated the explosive remotely, the FSB said. He was also detained.
The FSB has not disclosed the names of either detainee, saying only that both have confessed. The German woman had long worked as a so-called drop — a stand-in used by fraudsters as an intermediary for receiving or sending money, the FSB added.
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