MOSCOW. July 7 (Interfax) - A resident of Simferopol has been detained in Crimea on suspicion of sabotaging a rail line in the Bakhchisarai district last winter, the public relations center of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
"As the special military operation began in February 2022, the resident of Simferopol moved to Odessa, where he was recruited by officers of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Department and received reconnaissance and sabotage training, after which he was deployed to the Republic of Crimea," the FSB public relations center said in a statement obtained by Interfax.
"Acting on the orders from Ukrainian curators, he blew up track on the Chistenkoye - Pochtovoye rail line in the Bakhchisarai district of the Republic of Crimea on February 23, 2023, using an improvised explosive device provided to him through a cache," the FSB said.
The suspect was detained in Simferopol within the framework of a criminal case opened on sabotage charges, the FSB said, adding that he was placed under arrest.
According to the FSB, the arrested man, born in 1998, "admitted to cooperation with Ukrainian security services and perpetration of a terrorist act of sabotage."