FSB, Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Investigative Committee officers conducted mass detentions to "suppress" the spread of "neo-Nazism and terrorism ideas" in the Telegram messenger, reported the FSB Public Relations Center.
"Preventive and prophylactic measures" took place in 75 regions of Russia against 325 administrators and users of "destructive internet resources".
As a result, five Russian citizens involved in preparing mass murders in the cities of Donetsk, Mariupol, Krasnoyarsk, and Orel were detained, as well as three minors from the Chelyabinsk region who planned to carry out a terrorist attack on a transport infrastructure facility, reported the FSB press service.
The Investigative Committee also reported on a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Bashkortostan who, according to the investigation, "spread materials and information about planning mass murders in educational institutions of the city of Blagoveshchensk," and a 15-year-old teenager from the Orenburg region who participated in the activities of a banned international movement and planned to paint neo-Nazi graffiti and set fire to others' property for money.
During the searches, components for making improvised explosive and incendiary devices, cold weapons, plans for preparing armed attacks, Nazi symbols, and propaganda materials of Ukrainian terrorist structures were seized.
According to security forces, the activities of 59 administrators of channels and chats in the "Telegram" messenger, "spreading neo-Nazi and terrorist ideology, in whose communication means instructions for conducting sabotage and terrorist activities, manufacturing explosives, as well as correspondence with foreign curators of terrorist organizations were found," were suppressed.
Currently, the agency is "deciding on the qualification of the unlawful activities of 58 propagandists and supporters of the ideology of mass murder and suicide." More than 250 people who were approached were released after "preventive measures."