MOSCOW. Nov 23 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the prevention of acts of sabotage on military and power industry sites in the Voronezh region.
"A set of search and investigative procedures has prevented an attempt of perpetrating an act of sabotage at military and power industry sites in the Voronezh region by members of a secret cell of followers of Ukrainian nationalist ideology," the FSB said on Wednesday.
"During an attempt to detain the leader and two accomplices while they were retrieving means of terror from a cache previously arranged on the outskirts of Voronezh, they offered armed resistance to Russian FSB officials and were killed in the course of counteractions," the FSB said.
No civilians or law enforcement officials were harmed, it said.
Two ready-to-act improvised explosive devices and components for them, cold steel, firearms, munitions of various caliber, and secret communication devices were discovered and seized during "searches at the terrorists' homes and an examination of the scene of the incident," it said.
The FSB Investigative Department has opened and is investigating a criminal case on a count of sabotage.
"Search and investigative procedures are continuing," it said.
The FSB did not provide the suspected saboteurs' identities or other details of the operation.