FSB details foiled Pyatigorsk bomb plot

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.