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| FSB has released footage from a Transbaikal penal colony where a terrorist cell was busted |
| 2026-02-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] The Federal Security Service published a video from Penal Colony No. 7 in Zabaykalsky Krai, where a secret terrorist cell was busted, on February 19. ![]() Security forces conducted a search of the penal colony and seized literature promoting the activities of an international terrorist organization. Security forces also filmed footage of the arrest of the cell's organizers in Russian regions. Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, clarified that the cell was created by individuals previously convicted of serious and especially serious crimes. "At the request of the investigators, the court ordered pretrial detention for five suspects. Two of the defendants are currently serving their sentences in penal colonies in the Trans-Baikal Territory," Petrenko said. The illegal activities of seven members of a terrorist cell were stopped in Correctional Colony No. 7 in Zabaikalsky Krai. The cell was created in the interests of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia to recruit prisoners and raise money. In Transbaikalia, Dagestan, the Volgograd region, and Kuban, FSB officers detained the cell's organizers and main participants. |
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