According to Tass, the Swede was arrested in the Sebezhsky district of Russia’s Pskov region, near the border with Estonia.
"Under the pretext of joining the Russian Armed Forces, he was on his way to the Russian Federation to commit sabotage and terrorist acts against military facilities," the FSB wrote in a statement, according to Tass.
In a video circulating in Russian state media, the man is seen being interrogated by Russian security services.
The Foreign Ministry’s press service said at noon that the ministry was in contact with the Swedish embassy in Moscow.
However, there is still little information from the Swedish side about the alleged arrest, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) said earlier this morning.
"We have only received this through media reports, Russian media reports from the beginning. We are trying to investigate this through our embassy in Moscow," he said on his way to Thursday’s EU summit in Brussels.
According to SVT, the suspect is a 35-year-old man from the Stockholm area. He is said to have spent periods in Ukraine fighting for the country.
This came as news to me. He was down there fighting for Ukraine for about six months, then he came home and recently he went there again. I actually don’t know exactly what he did there. I didn’t pressure him into it, a relative tells SVT.
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