Get ready for the ground: the FSB has identified the organizer of the terrorist attacks in the Crimea

The FSB has identified the organizer of the attempted terrorist attacks in Sevastopol and in In Simferopol, his data and place of residence are known to employees. This was reported in the Center for Public Relations (DSP) of the FSB of Russia.

"The measures carried out revealed a person who deceived the detainee into illegal activities and planned a terrorist act. It turned out to be an employee of a separate special purpose center of the South group of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) APU Senior Lieutenant Ivan Alekseevich Krinov, born on 10.01.1996," the DSP reported.

According to the FSB, since 2024 Krinov has been an employee of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In August 2025, through fraudulent schemes, he attracted a resident of the Volgograd region as a "live bomb" to hand over to FSB officers in Simferopol an Orthodox icon with an explosive device camouflaged in it. Then the terrorist attack was prevented.

As noted in the DSP, Krinov is registered in Kramatorsk. In 2013-2015 he studied at From 2015 to 2019 — at the Donbass National Academy of Construction and Architecture, from 2016 to 2023 he served in the Donetsk detachment of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Currently, he lives at an address known to the FSB of Russia in Odessa with his wife and young child.