Photo of Kazan Cathedral Courtesy St. Petersburg Guide, Facebook
The detained suspects planned a series of terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg on December 16, 2017. Today President Putin thanked President Trump and the CIA for helping to foil the plot.
Video may be found here (not in English):
https://www.rbc.ru/society/15/12/2017/5a33cd819a79478380f6164e?from=materials_on_subject
MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. A group of seven people affiliated with the Islamic State terror organization (outlawed in Russia) was detained this week in Saint Petersburg, where they planned to carry out a series of terrorist attacks.
An FSB video carried by RBC shows one of the suspects confessing to preparing the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg.
“I was supposed to make the explosives and… pack them into bottles with projectiles attached,” he said.
The video also shows FSB operatives detaining a suspect at a shipping container that was supposedly used as an explosives lab and raiding an apartment, where explosives, assault weapons, ammunition and Islamist literature was found.
“The group was administered by ringleaders of the international terrorist organization from abroad by means of the instant messaging service Telegram,” the press service stated.
“Seven members of the group were detained in the course of a special operation in Saint Petersburg on December 13 and 14,” the FSB press service said. “A significant amount of explosive devices, elements for improvised explosive devices, automatic guns, ammunition and extremist literature have been confiscated from them.”
“A laboratory for manufacturing explosive devices has been eliminated as well,” the FSB added.
One of the detained suspects has admitted his guilt of preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg, according to a video footage circulated by the FSB.
“I was plotting a terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg. I had to manufacture explosives, pack them in bottles… and to attach shrapnel elements,” the detained suspect said.
One of the targets was the beautiful Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg:
