MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Wednesday that it had thwarted a planned sabotage and terrorist attack targeting critical infrastructure in the Tyumen Region.

According to the FSB, the suspect acted on orders from Ukrainian special services and planned an attack on a dispatch station of a major oil pipeline operated by the Russian company Transneft.

The individual attempted to extract components he had bought from a cache to assemble an improvised explosive device on Wednesday. When security personnel tried to capture him, he offered armed resistance and was eventually neutralized, the FSB said.