(Reuters) – Russia's Federal Security Service said on Saturday that it had thwarted a major attack in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural region and arrested four teenagers who it said were planning to detonate a bomb in a crowded area.
The Federal Security Service said it had confiscated the components of a homemade explosive device, and that investigators in the Sverdlovsk region had opened a criminal case.
The Federal Security Service said the four teenagers were Russian citizens born in 2007 and 2008. He did not name them.
The FSB said that the detainees “shared the ideas of a terrorist organization banned in Russia and planned to carry out a terrorist act using a homemade explosive device” in places where many Yekaterinburg citizens were located.
She added that two of the detainees were also involved in an arson attack on a vehicle belonging to the Ministry of Interior. The arson attack occurred on December 22, 2024, Interfax news agency reported.
