They tried to import powerful explosive devices from Georgia to Russia

The Georgian State Security Service reported on Monday that seven citizens of Georgia, three citizens of Ukraine and two citizens of Armenia were detained in an attempt to send several explosive devices through the territory of Georgia to Russia with the aim of organizing a large-scale terrorist attack in Voronezh.

According to the Georgian secret service, a former resident of Georgia, Andrey Sharashidze, who is called an Odessa activist of the right-wing Ukrainian pro-presidential party “Servant of the People”, sent six explosive devices with 15 kilograms of powerful C-4 explosive from Odessa to Voronezh.

Explosive devices were disguised as batteries and transported in a minivan with Ukrainian license plates through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

In Georgia, local special services managed to inconspicuously neutralize the devices and then give the containers their original appearance of ordinary batteries.

The transporters left one of the batteries in an apartment in Tbilisi with an as yet unknown purpose, and the second one, which had been defused with explosive devices, was taken to the Kazbegi border crossing on the North Ossetian section of the Russian-Georgian border.

Detentions and seizure of devices were carried out by Georgian state security officers at the Russian-Georgian border together with officers of the border police department.

The Georgian special service claims that if these devices were activated in a crowded place, a terrorist attack could lead to numerous victims and the destruction of infrastructure, and the responsibility could be assigned to Georgia, since its territory was used for transporting explosives.

According to employees of the special service, the cargo carriers may not have known what exactly they were transporting under the guise of ordinary batteries. It is possible that Tbilisi is ready to cooperate with Moscow on the matter.