The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) captured 14 members of the Ukraine radical youth group MKU in Saratov in southern Russia on May 28. The MKU advocates massacres in numerous cities, among other nefarious activities.
“The FSB seized a large amount of propagandistic extremist materials from the group, as well as knives, communications devices with instructions on making improvised explosives and firearms and also correspondence with the group’s mastermind from Ukraine about plotting violent actions, the press office said,” reported TASS.
The FSB reported that those arrested are making confessions, and face prison terms of up to ten years.
In April this year, the FSB captured 16 activists with the MKU operating in nine Russian cities. At that time, one of the detained spilled the beans on their plans: “One of their goals was to carry out ‘direct violence and killings on the street, using knives, pistols, machine guns, whatever.’ According to one of the detained, the group’s leader Yegor Krasnov ‘handed down instructions to carry out mass killings and explosions, set buildings on fire and shoot down people from the Caucasus and Arab countries.’
“The group recruited new members in stages. At first, [Krasnov] told them to draw extremist slogans on buildings, after that they were ordered to beat homeless persons or members of youth subculture groups and later, ‘assault civilians and law enforcement officers with bladed weapons and attack government buildings, setting them on fire and carrying out explosions,’ the FSB noted.” [https://tass.com/emergencies/1295487]
