Azerbaijani citizen detained in Stavropol in connection with terrorist attack

Security forces detained a citizen of Azerbaijan in connection with the preparation of a terrorist attack. According to the FSB, he was preparing terrorist attacks in a number of buildings in Yessentuki and Stavropol on orders from a Ukrainian terrorist organization.

FSB officers detained an Azerbaijani citizen in Stavropol Krai for preparing terrorist attacks, TASS reported with reference to the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the Russian FSB.

According to the agency, the man, on his own initiative, joined a Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation and, on its orders, "conducted detailed reconnaissance of a number of sites intended for committing sabotage and terrorist acts, in particular, administrative buildings of law enforcement agencies and transport infrastructure in the cities of Yessentuki and Stavropol," the PRC reported.

According to the FSB, he acquired the necessary materials for the manufacture components and striking elements of improvised explosive devices, placing them in a hiding place, and subsequently intended, using the knowledge and skills acquired during his service in the special forces of the armed forces of Azerbaijan, to assemble several explosive devices for terrorist attacks.

During the investigative actions, components for the manufacture of explosive devices, communications equipment and electronic storage media containing information exposing his illegal activities in the interests of a Ukrainian terrorist organization were seized from him, the agency reports.

A case of preparation for a terrorist attack is being investigated (Articles 30 and 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

No information about this has been published on the FSB website by 9:56 Moscow time.

Relations between Moscow and Baku have noticeably worsened after an Azerbaijan Airlines plane with 67 people on board crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, 2024, while flying from Baku to Grozny. You can read more about this in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "Baku-Grozny flight crash" and in the material "Geopolitical confrontation: what the crash of the AZAL plane led to".

On June 28, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called on the Russian authorities to investigate the deaths and injuries of Azerbaijanis who suffered on June 27 as a result of a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg. Experts in Baku called blunt force trauma the cause of death of the brothers Guseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, while the Russian side called the cause of death a heart attack.

It should be noted that on September 3, the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan met in Beijing and shook hands, but refrained from talking .

The ethnic raids in Russia and the retaliatory detentions of Russians in Azerbaijan became a new round of deterioration in relations between the two countries. Baku accuses the Russian authorities of extrajudicial reprisals against Azerbaijanis, and footage of the brutal detention of Russians in Baku looks like a demonstrative response to Moscow's actions, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Crisis in Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia".