Detailing thwarted terrorist attack on gas tanker arriving from Belgium at Ust-Luga port

MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Security services thwarted a terrorist attack at the port of Ust-Luga in Russia’s Leningrad Region after discovering that the hull of a tanker coming from Belgium was covered in bombs, the press office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported.

TASS has compiled the key information known at this time.

Foiled terrorist attack

- The FSB, in coordination with the Investigative Committee, the Defense Ministry, and the Russian National Guard, thwarted a terrorist attack on the Arrhenius gas carrier that had arrived from the Belgian port of Antwerp at the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region for loading, after which it was scheduled to continue on to the Turkish port of Samsun, the FSB press office reported.

- According to Russian Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko, the vessel entered the seaport on May 20.