KIEV, July 1 - The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reports it has detained a group of individuals suspected of plotting to blast a railway section in Kharkiv region.

"SBU officers detained five members of a terrorist group, who were planning to blast a stretch of the Kiev-Kharkiv railway," it said.

The group is led by a 45 year-old resident of Kharkiv, who had been tasked by Igor Bezler (nom de guerre Bes, or Devil), a militant leader in the town of Horlivka in Donetsk region, to blow up a train carrying artillery ammunition, SBU said.