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Moscow announces the arrest of a 16-year-old Russian teenager, suspected of having attempted to sabotage the Trans-Siberian railway infrastructure according to “instructions from the Ukrainian intelligence services”.
A teenager was arrested in the Kirov region, in central Russia, as he prepared to sabotage two signaling, centralization and automatic blocking cabinets of the main tracks on the Trans-Siberian railway network. According to a press release issued by the Investigative Committee, the country's main investigative body specifies that the suspect, a young Russian aged 16, had planned to damage the technical cabinets with explosives and set fire to them. according to “instructions from the Ukrainian intelligence services” which had also promised him a financial reward.
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A bonus of 25,000 rubles, or around €250
The incident could have caused “a collision or train derailment”, the press release added. During the arrest and during the investigations that followed, investigators discovered material intended for the manufacture of homemade explosive devices, as well as digital exchanges between the suspect and presumed agents of the Ukrainian intelligence services. According to the Ria Novosti news agency, which was one of the most important news agencies in Russia along with TASS and Interfax, before becoming a propaganda organ of the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, the young man admitted the facts, explaining having obtained the promise of a bonus of 25,000 rubles, or approximately 250 euros, in exchange for his act of sabotage.
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This arrest is part of a vast population surveillance operation carried out by the Russian authorities since the start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine. Thousands of people were punished or imprisoned for expressing opposition to the war. Moscow pronounces severe sentences, often accompanied by heavy sentences, against all those whom an often expeditious justice system finds guilty of espionage, treason, sabotage or extremism.
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