Two Mariupol residents who were planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in Belgorod have been detained by Russian FSB officers, the agency’s press service reported on July 23.
It is noted that they were detained in Mariupol. “local residents, citizens of Russia, born in 1986 and 1993, who, on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, planned to burn down a mosque in Belgorod”.
According to the FSB, they were recruited in June through a courier. An employee of the Ukrainian special services offered them money to go to Belgorod and set fire to a mosque there.
The attackers have already admitted that they were preparing a terrorist attack. They have been taken into custody.
The FSB published a video with a confession from one of the detainees. He said that a friend who was supposedly staying in a colony in Dnepropetrovsk contacted him and offered to carry out a terrorist attack in exchange for money.
He explained that the purpose of the terrorist attack was the idea “Confronting Christians and Muslims in Russia to incite hostility between them”.
They planned to attack the mosque with a Molotov cocktail.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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