The migrant was arrested on charges of preparing a terrorist attack in Stavropol.

A native of Central Asia planned to blow up a homemade bomb in a shopping center in Stavropol, the FSB reported. The court has arrested the man for two months.

According to security officials, a citizen of one of the Central Asian countries was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in Stavropol and then leave for Syria to join militants of an international terrorist organization.

The man, according to the FSB, pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization and promised to organize an explosion in one of the shopping centers of the regional capital. Before his arrest, he managed to study the location of the intended bomb placement and choose a time for the explosion when the shopping center would have the largest number of people.

The migrant also bought components for making an explosive device, which were seized from him during a search, TASS reports, citing the FSB Public Relations Center.

In the operational video of the agency, security officials detain a man on the street, dressed in a tracksuit with the word "Russia" on his chest and a tricolor on his sleeve. The face of the detainee is hidden in the recording; the name he gives at the request of the security official is cut from the audio track. The footage also shows components for assembling a bomb seized from the detainee's home – according to the video description, he managed to purchase everything he needed in the "household goods department."

In front of the camera, the detainee says that he "met one brother" who is in the ranks of the terrorist organization (its name is also removed from the audio track).

"I also wanted to go there. He asked me to go to Stavropol, to go into the shopping center, to film it. I filmed. And he also asked me to buy things for the terrorist attack, and I bought [...] and I was detained by the FSB officers," the young man recounts.

The criminal case is being investigated under the article on attempted terrorism (part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of Russia). The court in Stavropol Krai has detained the accused until January 12, 2027, reports Interfax South, citing the press service of the regional court.