Pagans supporting Ukraine planned to blow up a temple in Crimea
Two Crimean residents, followers of a neopagan faith, planned to commit a terrorist attack on the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Guide" in Simferopol. FSB officers prevented them from carrying out their plan, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
During the search, Ukrainian symbols, extremist literature and photographs in military uniform were found on men born in 1990 and 1994. In addition, there were explosive components in the garage.
“The men purchased ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder, from which they illegally produced a mixed high explosive, and also illegally purchased an ED-8Zh electric detonator, related to explosive devices, for subsequent use as a means of initiation in the manufacture of an improvised explosive device,” the report says. FSB.
The detainees held radical views and, in their words, “were going to exterminate Christianity.” The Southern District Military Court sentenced them to 14 and 12 years in prison.
Pro- Ukrainian pagans planned to blow up a church in Crimea.