The Russian Federal Security Service today detained three suspected terrorists in a major operation in the southern region of Dagestan.
Initial unconfirmed reports citing law enforcement linked the suspects to shootings and shootings at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow, which left at least 143 people dead.
Those detained were “planning a series of terrorist crimes” amid fears of more attacks, Russian officials said.
Smoke was seen coming from an apartment in the city of Kaspiysk before the suspects were detained.
Here and in the residential areas of the regional capital, Makhachkala, a major anti-terrorist operation was underway.
According to Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee, automatic weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive devices were found “ready to use.”
The three detainees came from a Central Asian state and were “directly related” to the terrorists who carried out the Moscow attack, according to the Telegram channel Before Everyone.
Smoke was seen coming from an apartment in the city of Kaspiysk before the suspects were detained.
Initial unconfirmed reports cited law enforcement linking suspects to shootings and fires at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow.
The four main suspects in Moscow are all from Tajikistan and their attack was the work of an ISIS affiliate, according to Western sources.
During today’s assault on the FSB, no victims were reported.
According to some reports, further operations were taking place in Dagestan.
Russia is on high alert for more atrocities after the Crocus City Hall bloodbath on March 22.
“Security agencies arrested three bandits who were planning a series of terrorist crimes,” the committee reported.
‘During the inspection of the places where the criminals were detained, automatic weapons, ammunition and an improvised explosive device ready to be used were found.’
An anti-terrorist regime had previously been declared in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, giving law enforcement the right to conduct searches, search cars and block Internet communications.
Russia is on high alert for more atrocities after the Crocus City Hall bloodbath on March 22.
The three detainees came from a Central Asian state and were ‘directly related’ to the terrorists who carried out the Moscow attack
The terrorist threat in the heart of Europe has reached new levels after the Moscow attack
“Operational search activities and necessary investigative actions continue,” the committee stated.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov has vowed to go after Russians fighting Vladimir Putin for volunteer paramilitary groups based in Ukraine.
These partisans gained a territorial foothold by capturing land in Russia’s Belgorod region.
Putin has branded them “traitors” and has ordered Bortnikov to hunt them down and kill them, to “punish them without prescription, wherever they are.”
The head of the FSB said today: ‘We know by name the organizers of… actions on our territory.
“We will do whatever is necessary to find and punish these scoundrels.”
The terrorist threat in the heart of Europe has reached new heights following the Moscow attack, officials have warned, and extra security measures are being taken as England football fans prepare to fly to Germany for Euro 2024 this summer.
The Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), an offshoot of ISIS, last week claimed responsibility for the deadly assault on the Crocus City Hall entertainment complex in the Russian capital, in which nearly 140 people were massacred and hundreds more were wounded. wounds.
In the wake of the attack, Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser issued a stern warning about the threat it poses to her country, saying it has raised “the dangers to a new level.”
It comes ahead of the UEFA European Football Championship, which starts in just 75 days, and British police will be deployed to Germany to help keep fans safe.
Germany will be on high alert ahead of the major international event, Faeser said this week, and temporary border controls will be introduced “to prevent potential perpetrators of violence from entering the country.”
