Attempted Ukrainian Sabotage of Pipeline Foiled by Russia’s FSB

The Russian security services (FSB), according to TASS, foiled the attempt to sabotage a gas distribution station in the Leningrad Region. FSB detained a foreigner and seized five IED explosive devices. “As a result of processing the received signal about the appearance of a suspicious person in the area of the gas distribution station and timely, coordinated actions, the criminal was identified and detained,” reported the FSB. “He turned out to be a foreign citizen, Ukrainian by nationality.”