Russia’s FSB security services said Friday it had detained a man for plotting a rail bombing in Crimea as a drone was downed over the Moscow-occupied peninsula.

Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, has been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes and sabotage attacks as Kyiv tries to retake the peninsula.
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The FSB said the suspect — a Russian citizen in his mid-40s — had been “collecting information on the deployment of Russian defence ministry facilities and units” and was preparing a railway bombing.

“In а hiding place he had organised (we) found and seized an improvised explosive device made using foreign-made plastic explosives,” it said.

It said the man had been acting on the “instructions of Ukrainian military intelligence” and had been remanded in custody.

The Russian-appointed governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, warned that transport infrastructure had become a main target for “terrorism” and that Ukrainian saboteurs would be punished.

“An unenviable fate awaits the Ukrainian agents. They will be found and punished,” he said.

He later said a Ukrainian drone had been shot down over the north of the peninsula, but did not report any further details.
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