MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - A woman has been detained in the city of Uglich on suspicion of gathering information on orders from Ukrainian security services to stage a terrorist attack on a critical infrastructure facility in the region, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation together with the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation thwarted preparations to carry out an act of terrorism in the Yaroslavl region," the FSB said.
The woman, a Russian citizen born in 1987, was detained in Uglich "for gathering and passing on information about a critical infrastructure facility in the Yaroslavl region on orders from Ukrainian security services with the aim of perpetrating a terrorist attack," it said.
Communications equipment "containing correspondence with a Ukrainian coordinator discussing the planned crime" was seized from her, the FSB said.
Investigators have opened a criminal case on charges of preparing to commit an act of terrorism.
The FSB's press center also released video footage of the woman's detention. The video shows parts of her correspondence with the suspected Ukrainian coordinator.
According to the correspondence, the coordinators asked the woman to help blow up a hydropower plant in the region.