While the US has urged its citizens not to travel to Russia, but to immediately leave its territory for those living there, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said yesterday that it had received information indicating that the US army was training militants to attack targets in Russia. and countries of the former Soviet Union. “Do not travel to Russia due to the unpredictable consequences of the conflict in Ukraine,” the US Embassy in Moscow said in a statement on its website and the possibility of arbitrary detention or “harassment” by Russian law enforcement. The statement said: You should be more careful because of the possibility of arrests without legal grounds. According to the statement, Russia can deny recognition of US citizenship to dual citizens, deny them access to US consular assistance, subject them to mobilization, prevent them from leaving Russia or recruit them, or all of that. Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said it had received information that the US military was training Islamic militants to attack targets in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The agency, run by an associate of President Vladimir Putin, added that it had information that 60 of those fighters from groups linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda had been recruited and were being trained at a US base in Syria. And the agency confirmed in a statement: “They will be tasked with preparing and carrying out terrorist attacks against diplomats, civil servants, law enforcement officials and the military.” The statement did not release the intelligence on which its claims were based, and Reuters, which reported the news, was unable to independently verify the information. The agency, part of the KGB during the Soviet era, is headed by Sergei Naryshkin, who met with CIA director William Burns in Ankara last year. On the ground, a source told Sputnik that Russian forces had managed to shell a Ukrainian tank hangar near the Donetsk People’s Republic. The source indicated that Russian forces found equipment belonging to Ukrainian forces inside the building and it was hit by a Grad missile. The statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense states that “to the south of Donetsk, in the area of Pavlovka and Oglidar of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was fired, as a result of which more than 250 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.” 12 units of military equipment were destroyed, except for the artillery depot.