IN BRIEF: FSB foils major series of terrorist attacks targeting Russian service members

MOSCOW, July 9. /TSS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has prevented an unprecedentedly large-scale series of terrorist and subversive attacks targeting military facilities and Defense Ministry service members, the agency said in a statement.

TASS has gathered the details available so far.

Unprecedented scope of attacks planned

- The FSB has stopped an attempt by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, backed by Western sponsors, to carry out subversive and terrorist attacks on military facilities, a leading defense industry site, and Defense Ministry service members. According to the agency, the planned operation was unprecedented in scale and level of threat.

- The plan for acts of sabotage and terrorism was thwarted "through a set of operational, investigative, counterintelligence, and reconnaissance activities," the FSB pointed out.