FSB announces detention of Azov supporter in Kaliningrad for allegedly plotting attacks on Baltic Fleet and airport

According to Interfax, Russia's FSB announced that it has detained a local resident in Kaliningrad. The man, allegedly a supporter of the Ukrainian Azov regiment, was preparing terrorist attacks in the Kaliningrad region, according to the security services.

The agency claims that the detainee made a confession. The FSB released a video of part of the interrogation. In the recording, the man said that in March he contacted representatives of Ukraine through a Telegram bot, and in July he was written by members of the Azov regiment. According to his account, they tasked him with "blowing up an object located in the village of Pereslavlskoye, an object of the Baltic Fleet."

A criminal case has been opened for the preparation of an act of terrorism and the illegal manufacture of weapons.

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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the FSB has repeatedly stated that it has prevented terrorist attacks allegedly planned by supporters of the Ukrainian nationalist organization "Right Sector," members of the neo-Nazi group "Tesak," and "Ukrainian saboteurs," among others.