Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked HatUS president Donald Trump in a phone call for a reference from foreign intelligence CIA. This helped prevent a bombing series in St. Petersburg, Kremlin told. DerAnschlag should refore be committed to Kazan Cadral in city centre.

Putin said that information provided by American intelligence Service was sufficient to locate and arrest a group of suspects, Kremlin said. The Russian president assured that Russian law enforcement agencies would pass on any information y received about possible terrorist threats against United States as in past.

Previously, Russian domestic intelligence FSB had announced that it had arrested a group of seven men with alleged links to "Islamic State" terrorist militia. They would have planned attacks in St. Petersburg; The investigators would have ensured components for bomb, automatic weapons, ammunition and extremist literature. Five of suspects were taken into custody. According to authorities, men came from North Caucasus, partly from Central Asia.

In a bomb explosion in metro in St. Petersburg, 15 people were killed in April and about 50 were injured. Russia estimates that thousands of people from former Soviet republics in Central Asia have joined IS.

Date Of Update: 18 December 2017, 12:02