MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it had detained a member of the Islamic State (IS) suspected of planning the assassination of a leader of the militia in the rebel Ukrainian Donetsk region on orders from Kiev.
The FSB said in a statement that the suspect, a Russian national identified as Medzhid Magomedov, born in 1988, was detained in the western Russian Smolensk region on Sunday.
During the detention, it was discovered that Magomedov carried an improvised explosive device with a capacity of 1.5 kg in TNT equivalent, as well as a pistol with a silencer and ammunition, the statement said.
The detained confessed that at the beginning of 2018 he traveled to Ukraine for talks with IS representatives regarding supplies for terrorist groups operating in Russia's North Caucasus, it said.
There he was introduced to members of the Ukrainian Security Service and the Right Sector ultra-nationalist group, who asked him to eliminate a commander of the militia of Donetsk in the Smolensk region.
The statement did not give the name of the possible target.
Magomedov further confessed that Ukraine's special services rendered active assistance to IS terrorists, ensuring their safety, financing them and supplying them with weapons and explosives for the organization of terrorist attacks in Russia.
He said that the Ukrainian special services were also actively involving IS militants in operations aimed at eliminating the leaders of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine, the FSB said.
Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the independence-seeking insurgents in Ukraine's Donetsk region, was killed on Aug. 31 in an explosion. It remains unclear who was behind the attack.
