Moscow, Dec 18 : President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Sunday after ISIS-inspired terror attacks against the city of St Petersburg were thwarted by Russia’s Federal Security Service using intelligence provided by the CIA, the CNN has reported.
According to a statement from the Kremlin, Putin thanked Trump for the CIA’s information on the attacks, which were to take place on Saturday at the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg and other areas of the Russian city.
The Federal Security Service said Friday that seven members of a terror cell had been detained for their involvement in the plot, and that “a significant amount of explosives,” weapons and “extremist literature” were confiscated.
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