The FSB showed footage of the detention of those preparing terrorist attacks in Khabarovsk and Kabardino-Balkaria

Suspects in the preparation of terrorist attacks against government officials in the Khabarovsk Territory and police officers of Kabardino-Balkaria independently made incendiary mixtures. On January 17, the FSB of Russia published footage of the detention of the defendants.

Earlier that day, the department's Public Relations Center reported that law enforcement officers had prevented the preparation of terrorist attacks in the Khabarovsk Territory and Kabardino-Balkaria. According to the FSB, contacts with militants of terrorist organizations banned in the Russian Federation, methods of committing crimes and photographs of targets were found in the correspondence of the defendants in the Telegram messenger.

One of the detainees confessed that he mixed gasoline with oil to make an incendiary mixture. He received instructions from his supervisor via Telegram.

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The official representative of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, Svetlana Petrenko, said on the same day that security forces had prevented a terrorist attack in Nalchik, which a 16-year-old teenager was planning to commit on the instructions of a curator from a terrorist organization.

According to the investigation, in October 2025, the teenager, sharing the goals of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, recorded a video message to its leaders and joined its membership. Subsequently, through a messenger, acting on the instructions of his supervisor, he prepared a terrorist attack using an explosive device and firearms against police officers in Nalchik.

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