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Russia Detains German Woman Over Alleged Pyatigorsk Bomb Plot

The unverified FSB account places a German citizen in a case with clear diplomatic stakes.

Overview

  • Russia's FSB says it detained a German woman in Pyatigorsk, a southern city in the Stavropol region, over a plan to bomb a security facility.
  • The agency reports specialists found and disabled an explosive in her backpack that included about 1.5 kilograms of TNT.
  • Officials say a suspect from a Central Asian country recruited her under Ukrainian direction, with the woman cast as an unwitting victim.
  • Investigators say both detainees confessed to an attempted terrorist attack.
  • The account has not been verified by independent sources, which echoes a wartime pattern of hard-to-check FSB claims linking plots to Ukraine.