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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAccording to Associated Press<\/a>, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked President Trump for the tip to Russian Intelligence agencies that thwarted a bombing attack by terrorists in St Petersburg.<\/p>\n Russian TV stations have aired footage daily since Friday of the suspects in the foiled attacks being apprehended and questioned. One segment showed FSB operatives outside a St. Petersburg apartment building detaining a suspect, who appeared later saying he was told to prepare homemade bombs rigged with shrapnel.<\/p>\n \u201cMy job was to make explosives, put it in bottles and attach pieces of shrapnel,\u201d the suspect, identified by Russian media as 18-year old Yevgeny Yefimov, said in the footage released by the FSB.<\/p>\n Several other suspects came from mostly Muslim regions in Russia\u2019s volatile North Caucasus, and one man was from the ex-Soviet nation of Tajikistan that borders Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the article, Putin assured Trump that the Russians would return the favor if roles are ever reversed. The attack was planned for Saturday according to BBC<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"