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FSB details foiled Pyatigorsk bomb plot

Russia's FSB says it foiled a bomb plot in Pyatigorsk, detaining a German national and a Central Asian accomplice who confessed.

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Pyatigorsk, Russia
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Monday, 20 April 2026 at 12:08 UTC
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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reports it has thwarted a terrorist attack in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai. The agency stated that a German national, acting on orders from Kyiv, planned to detonate a backpack bomb with 1.5 kg of TNT equivalent at a law enforcement facility to cause mass casualties. A citizen of a Central Asian country was to remotely detonate the device, which would have killed the perpetrator, but both individuals were detained and have reportedly confessed.
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