The FSB detained a German citizen on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack

Russian intelligence authorities announced the arrest of a 57-year-old German citizen who allegedly planned to blow up a law enforcement facility in Pyatigorsk on behalf of Ukraine. 

This was reported by Tagesschau, citing a statement from the FSB. 

According to Russia, a bomb was found in the woman’s backpack, which was to be remotely detonated by another detainee—a man from Central Asia. The occupiers claim that the goal of the attack was to kill law enforcement officers, while the detainee herself was also supposed to die. The Russian side has not released any evidence to support these allegations or the names of the suspects.

Additionally, in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol, Russian occupiers sentenced former Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Ruslan Chorny-Shvets to 18 years in prison.

In Germany, a Russian man attacked Russian theater and film actor Artur Smolyaninov, who had been added to Russia’s list of “terrorists and extremists” for condemning the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. An unknown individual used profanity against the actor and threatened to “tear him to pieces” when he arrives in Russia.

Soviet and Russian actress and singer Alla Pugacheva stood by her husband, Maxim Galkin, and asked the Russian authorities to add her to the list of “foreign agents.”