The FSB said a criminal case had been opened against the woman on charges punishable by up to ten years in prison. 'We'll blow them to smithereens so that Russia withdraws its troops from (the eastern Ukrainian town of) Bakhmut,' the unidentified person writes.Ī court ordered the suspect to be detained for two months, the RIA news agency reported. She also writes about organising explosions across Russia and says there are many hydroelectric power plants in the Yaroslavl region. In the messages, the woman agrees to supply the map coordinates of local railway lines, military recruitment offices and the hydroelectric plant. Russian news outlet Baza, which sometimes publishes material from the FSB, released a message exchange between the suspect and a purported Ukrainian coordinator. She is then shown being arrested in her office by masked FSB and police agents. Service has arrested a woman who it claims collected information on a 'critical infrastructure facility' at the order of Ukraine's intelligence services.Ī surveillance video shared by Russian media appeared the show the suspect using her phone to film near a hydroelectric power plant in Russia's Yaroslavl region.

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