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Russia's top security agency said Monday it has broken up what it called a "terrorist cell" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in southern Russia</a> whose members had provided weapons and cash to suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall.The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said that on Sunday it detained four suspected members of the cell in the Russian province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus.The agency alleged that the suspects detained in Dagestan were involved in channeling funds and providing weapons to the gunmen who attacked the concert hall on Moscow's western edge on March 22, killing 144 people in the deadliest attack on Russian soil in two decades.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-special-unit-linked-havana-syndrome-sickened-us-officials-overseas-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RUSSIAN SPECIAL UNIT LINKED TO HAVANA SYNDROME THAT SICKENED US OFFICIALS OVERSEAS: REPORT</a>"The detained militants directly participated in financing the perpetrators of the March 22 terror <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack on the Crocus City Hall</a> in Moscow and providing them with terror means," the FSB said in a statement.It said one of the suspects detained in Dagestan had confessed to personally bringing weapons to the Moscow attackers.The FSB released a video showing one of the suspects saying that they also planned an attack in the city of Kaspiysk in Dagestan. It wasn’t clear whether the two confessions came from the same person.The agency said the suspects are foreign nationals, without specifying their nationality. The suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall arrested hours after the March 22 raid are citizens of the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan.The detention of four suspects in Dagestan follows the arrest of the four suspected gunmen and seven others who were accused of involvement in the attack.An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Vladimir Putin</a> acknowledged that "radical Islamists" conducted the raid, but alleged - without providing evidence - that Ukraine and the West were involved, despite Kyiv's vehement denials.

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title: Russia has detained suspects in Caucasus linked to Moscow terror attack, security
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content: 'Russia''s top security agency said Monday it has broken up what it called
 a "terrorist cell" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/russia"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">in southern Russia</a> whose members had provided
 weapons and cash to suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall.The Federal
 Security Service, or FSB, said that on Sunday it detained four suspected members
 of the cell in the Russian province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus.The
 agency alleged that the suspects detained in Dagestan were involved in channeling
 funds and providing weapons to the gunmen who attacked the concert hall on Moscow''s
 western edge on March 22, killing 144 people in the deadliest attack on Russian
 soil in two decades.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-special-unit-linked-havana-syndrome-sickened-us-officials-overseas-report"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">RUSSIAN SPECIAL UNIT LINKED TO HAVANA SYNDROME
 THAT SICKENED US OFFICIALS OVERSEAS: REPORT</a>"The detained militants
 directly participated in financing the perpetrators of the March 22 terror <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack on the Crocus City Hall</a> in Moscow and
 providing them with terror means," the FSB said in a statement.It said one
 of the suspects detained in Dagestan had confessed to personally bringing weapons
 to the Moscow attackers.The FSB released a video showing one of the suspects
 saying that they also planned an attack in the city of Kaspiysk in Dagestan. It
 wasn’t clear whether the two confessions came from the same person.The agency
 said the suspects are foreign nationals, without specifying their nationality. The
 suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall arrested hours after the March 22
 raid are citizens of the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan.The detention
 of four suspects in Dagestan follows the arrest of the four suspected gunmen and
 seven others who were accused of involvement in the attack.An affiliate of
 the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/personalities/vladimir-putin"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Vladimir Putin</a> acknowledged that "radical
 Islamists" conducted the raid, but alleged - without providing evidence - that Ukraine
 and the West were involved, despite Kyiv''s vehement denials.'
summary: Russia&apos;s Federal Security Service says that it has broken up a terrorist
 cell whose members &quot;directly participated in financing the perpetrators&quot;
 of the Moscow terror attack.
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