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FSB stops the activities of a terrorist cell in Crimea

2026-02-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] In the Bakhchisaray district of the Republic of Crimea, FSB officers have disrupted the activities of a cell of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia. This was reported on February 13 by the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC).

According to the agency, the cell included two Russian citizens. It was established that they were spreading terrorist ideology in Crimea and holding secret meetings.

During such meetings, as the intelligence service specified, local Muslim residents were recruited for subsequent training based on the doctrine of creating a so-called global caliphate.

Sounds like either ISIS or Al Qaeda.

During the investigation, the suspects were detained by FSB officers. Propaganda materials banned in Russia, as well as communications equipment and electronic storage devices containing information about the organization's forms and methods of operation, were seized from their residences.

The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol has opened a criminal case under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code—organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it.

Previously, the FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian National Guard, detained members of the "Wird of Followers of the Batal-Khadzhi Belkhoroev Movement"

…followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji (also known as Batal-haji Belkharoyev), revered Sufi Islam teacher during the early part of the 20th century in Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus. They appear to engage in the usual misbehaviours common to the region, and in 2023 sent a rapid response detachment (the Batalkhadzhinsky Rapid Response Detachment (BOBR)) to fight with the Akhmat special forces. Naturally Russia finds this objectionable...

(a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in Moscow, Chechnya, and Ingushetia. Weapons and explosives were seized from them.

The court is hearing a case against 12 alleged members of the group, accused of involvement in the 2019 murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev, head of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Ingushetia.

Posted by:badanov

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