MOSCOW. March 15 (Interfax) - The members of an ISIL (banned in Russia) sleeper cell detained on Wednesday said they had received an instruction to carry out a terrorist attack from a person who was in Syria.
"A person from ISIL who was in Syria contacted us and suggested carrying out a terrorist attack," a detainee said in the video of the questioning released by the Federal Security Service's (FSB) press service on Thursday.
"He told me we reported to the Islamic State, that there were orders from the Islamic State, specifically, to carry out a terrorist attack," another detainee said.
The video does not include information as to where and how the attack was supposed to be carried out.
The FSB earlier reported the detention in the Kaluga region of four residents of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region who belonged to a sleeper cell.