Concern grows over internal threat after several railway sabotage by groups opposing war in Ukraine
The internal threat keeps Russia on its toes. After several attacks on the railways by groups opposing the war in Ukraine, intelligence is on the hunt for those who want to sabotage the country’s infrastructure. After a series of raids, the Russian Security Service (FSB) reported this Friday the arrest of four people allegedly planning terrorist attacks on Russian administrative facilities.
The intelligence service has indicated that the four suspects, who remain in police custody pending the opening of a criminal case against them for alleged terrorism, are linked to “Ukrainian radicals” and were planning sabotage in Stavropol, a city in the southwestern part of the country. country. out of the country.
The arrest follows a series of raids on the detainees’ residences, as well as their equipped shelter in the Predgorny district of Stavropol, which saw security forces seize weapons, explosives and products used to make incendiary materials. and “methodological literature on the organization of mass disturbances,” the FSB said, according to Interfax news agency.
For example, concerns are growing about the internal threat in Russia after an explosives attack that damaged the railway as it passed through Novozybkvo, a Russian town about 15 kilometers from the border with Belarus. The resistance platform against the invasion of Ukraine ‘Stop the Wagons’ claimed responsibility for the attack. But since June, this group – stressing the importance of crippling rail transport, particularly in regions through which military equipment enters Ukraine and in areas from which missiles and bombings are launched – has claimed responsibility for up to six train sabotage operations. track structure.
The British Ministry of Defense expressed these concerns to the Kremlin in one of its parts on the war. “The Russian leadership will be even more concerned that even a small group of civilians are so opposed to the conflict that they resort to physical sabotage,” British intelligence said.
The Kremlin’s head, Vladimir Putin, must keep his eyes open not only on his territory, but also on the front, where one of his most important allies, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has admitted for the first time that he has killed his victims. own in the Kherson region. Earlier this week, one of their units was bombed. 23 soldiers were killed and 58 wounded, four of them seriously. “The losses were great overnight,” he said on his Telegram account, where he also sent a message to the Ukrainian armed forces: “We will overtake and destroy them without mercy.”
The statements come two days after Kadyrov called on Chechens to join the “great jihad” against Kiev and warned that “a self-respecting Muslim will look for no excuses.” “Destroy these shaitans (Arabic name given to the devil) wherever they are and however well they hide,” he launched in a Telegram message shortly after he criticized what he believed to be Russia’s lukewarm response to the counter-offensive. of the Ukrainian Army in the annexed regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya.
Source: La Verdad
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