Russia's FSB foils attack in Siberian uranium-enriching town - media


  • World
  • Thursday, 17 Aug 2023

(Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had thwarted a planned attack on communications stations in the uranium-enriching town of Zelenogorsk in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, Russian news agencies reported.

State-owned RIA quoted the FSB as saying it had detained two people who are members of the "Citizens of the USRR" collective and who planned to blow up communications stations of the state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom and the TransTelecom telecommunications company.

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