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| Bomb plot by supporter of radical Ukrainian nationalists thwarted in Russia’s major port city of Murmansk – FSB | |
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| The Russian security service FSB said it has arrested a man, linked with radical Ukrainian nationalists, who was plotting to carry out a bomb attack near a government building in the northern Russian port of Murmansk. | The Russian security service FSB said it has arrested a man, linked with radical Ukrainian nationalists, who was plotting to carry out a bomb attack near a government building in the northern Russian port of Murmansk. |
| The man was arrested on Tuesday as he was retrieving a powerful home-made bomb that was stashed in a cache, the FSB statement said. | The man was arrested on Tuesday as he was retrieving a powerful home-made bomb that was stashed in a cache, the FSB statement said. |
| The suspect was not identified by name. The FSB said he is in his mid-thirties, has Russian citizenship, and “supports” the “Right Sector,” a collective of various groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists, which played a crucial role in the armed coup in Kiev in 2014. | The suspect was not identified by name. The FSB said he is in his mid-thirties, has Russian citizenship, and “supports” the “Right Sector,” a collective of various groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists, which played a crucial role in the armed coup in Kiev in 2014. |
| Murmansk is a port on the Barents Sea located some 1,500km (932 miles) north from Moscow. In addition to being a major population and industrial center in northwestern Russia, it is also close to Severomorsk, the home base of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet. | Murmansk is a port on the Barents Sea located some 1,500km (932 miles) north from Moscow. In addition to being a major population and industrial center in northwestern Russia, it is also close to Severomorsk, the home base of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet. |
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