MOSCOW. Nov 15 (Interfax) - A teenager has been detained in Russia's Kirov region on suspicion of plotting an act of sabotage on a railroad on orders from Ukrainian special services, the press center for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
"A criminal case has been opened against a 16-year-old resident of the region under Part 3, Article 30, Point A, Part 2, Article 281 of the Russian Criminal Code (an attempt to commit an act of sabotage)," the FSB press center said in a statement obtained by Interfax on Friday.
"The suspect acted on orders from Ukrainian special services," it said,
"In exchange for a financial reward, he was going to set fire to two automatic block signaling boxes on the running lines of the railroad's Kirov section. If they had been damaged, it could have led to a man-made disaster such a collision or derailment of trains at this sector," the statement said.
"Items for making improvised incendiary devices and communication devices containing correspondence in one of the messengers with Ukrainian special services were seized from the suspect," it said.
The detained teenager has been remanded in custody, it said.
The Russian Investigative Committee, for its part, identified the suspect as a Russian citizen, born in 2008. The crime he is accused of is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.