Russia detains a German citizen for preparing sabotage with explosives on the railway network near Moscow

Russian authorities have arrested a German citizen on suspicion that he was preparing “sabotage” on the railway network in Nizhny Novgorodabout 400 kilometers from Moscow, as reported this Tuesday by the state news agency RIA. The man also has Russian nationality.

According to the statement from the FSB, the Russian security service, the detainee confessed to having carried out preparations to place a explosive device on a section of the railway network.

A criminal case has been opened for “Sabotage”, they added in the Russian intelligence service, where they reported that the Russian-German, of 21 yearswas arrested along with other suspects of professing “radical neo-Nazi ideology.”

Details about the rest of the detainees who are accused of crimes of a “common nature” were not revealed.

Last month the FSB arrested in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad to a German citizen who “arrived from Poland to commit new sabotage against an energy infrastructure.”

The German of Ukrainian origin was identified as Nikolai Viktorovich Gaidukborn in 1967.

In August, the German Rico Kriegersentenced to death in Belarus for fighting in Ukraine, returned to his country within the framework of the largest exchange between Russia, Belarus and the West since the end of the Cold War.