MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Recently detained suspects, planning a terrorist attack in Moscow, intended to make Russia stop its anti-Islamic State operation in Syria, a Federal Security Service’s (FSB) investigator said Tuesday.
"Baisultanov received an order to prepare the attack to pressure the [Russia] authorities and make them to stop the operation in Syria against the Islamic State," the investigator said at a court hearing.
According to the investigation, Baisultanov received instructions for a terrorist attack in Moscow while he was in the city of Grozny. The suspect at the time also received a detonator and explosives.
Russia’s Sukhoi Su-25, Su-24M and Su-34 attack aircraft, with the support of Su-30 jets, commenced precision airstrikes against IS targets in Syria on September 30, following a request from Syrian President Bashar Assad.