MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top domestic security agency said Wednesday that it has arrested a German national whom it accused of plotting to sabotage energy facilities on the orders of a Ukrainian national.
The Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that it arrested German national Nikolai Gayduk as he entered Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad from Poland and seized half a liter of liquid explosives. auto.
It was not stated whether Gayduk also had Russian citizenship or a visa to enter the country, or when exactly the arrest took place.
The FSB accused Gayduk, a Hamburg resident born in 1967, of planning acts of sabotage on the orders of a Ukrainian, Alexander Zhorov, who also lives in Hamburg.
The agency said Gayduk was involved in an explosion at a gas distribution station in Kaliningrad in March 2024 and a criminal case has been filed against him on charges of a terrorist attack and smuggling of explosives. A court ordered Gayduk to be placed in pre-trial detention pending an investigation and trial, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported. No other details were provided.
There was no immediate comment from German authorities.
