What we know about detention of terrorist organization member for scouting defense sites

MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a member of the Artpodgotovka terrorist organization banned in the country who was gathering information on defense enterprises for Ukrainian intelligence services while posing as an employee of a transport company, the FSB press office reported.

TASS has compiled the key information known at the moment.

- The FSB, in cooperation with the Russian Investigative Committee, detained a Russian citizen born in 1975 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, who is a member of the Artpodgotovka terrorist organization banned in Russia, the FSB press office reported.

- The FSB said that he was gathering intelligence on enterprises of Russia’s military-industrial complex on behalf of Ukrainian security services.

- According to the FSB, posing as an employee of a logistics and transport company, he conducted reconnaissance of strategically important facilities in seven Russian regions and sent information via Telegram to the handlers of the terrorist organization with the aim of undermining the country’s national security.