Swedish man arrested in Russia over alleged sabota...

Summary

• Russia’s FSB said on Thursday it had arrested a Swedish man who, it alleges, crossed the border illegally to attack military sites.
• Charges facing the Swedish manFor now, the FSB said, he stands accused of crossing the state border unlawfully.
• Notably, the FSB said only that the Swedish man arrived “from the territory of a neighbouring state,” without naming it.

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Russia’s FSB said on Thursday it had arrested a Swedish man who, it alleges, crossed the border illegally to attack military sites.

Agents picked him up in the Sebezhsky district of the Pskov region, the agency said. That district sits near Russia’s frontiers with Latvia and Belarus.

In footage released by the security service, the detainee named himself as Freddy Michael Stålkrantz Lindholm, aged 35, from Stockholm.

Investigators allege that he posed as a would-be recruit for the Russian army to get into the country. His true goal, in the agency’s words, was “sabotage and terrorist acts at military facilities.”

Swedish man linked to Ukrainian drone unit

According to the FSB, Lindholm held a contract with Ukrainian forces between February and June. During those months, it said, he led a squad that flew drones.

In the video, which the agency presented as a confession, he described joining the Aidar battalion. Moscow lists that unit as a terrorist organisation.