Terrorist attack on senior Crimean official prevented - FSB

MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported the detention of three Russian citizens suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on a representative of the Crimean authorities on orders from Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation prevented a terrorist attack on a senior official of the Republic of Crimea organized by the Security Service of Ukraine," the FSB press center said.

The detained citizens,"Bondar, Shevchenko and Ananyeva, acting on orders from the SBU, plotted to blow up a car in Simferopol that belongs to a representative of the Crimean authorities," it said.

"The detained persons have confessed," it said.