The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday said that it had stopped the activities of a network of Ukraine’s military intelligence that planned a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in Crimea.
The FSB in a statement said “Russia’s FSB stopped the activities of the intelligence network of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which planned to commit a series of high-profile sabotage and terrorist acts on the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
“Head of the republic Sergei Aksyonov, Chairman of the Parliament Konstantinov V.A., and Mayor of the city of Yalta Pavlenko Ya. P., as well as elements of the transport infrastructure of the peninsula, was chosen as targets of attacks.”
Roman Mashovets, the deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, organised the terrorist attacks and coordinated preparations to murder high-ranking officials in Crimea, the statement read.
The Russian security service added that it detained six citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as another one with dual Ukrainian and Bulgarian citizenship.
The components of the bombs, camouflaged as electric stoves, were imported by the Ukrainian special services from Bulgaria through Turkey and Georgia to Russia for these terrorist attacks, the FSB added.
Crimea head Sergei Aksyonov said there is no doubt that those who ordered the assassination attempt against him are in Kiev.
“There is no doubt that the paymasters of the crime are in Kiev.
“Ukraine is a terrorist state,” Aksyonov said on his Telegram channel, adding that those responsible will be found and held accountable.
Aksyonov added that the perpetrators behind the thwarted terrorist acts on the territory of the republic are members of the same group that blew up the railroad tracks in the Bakhchysaraiskyi district of Crimea in February. (Sputnik/NAN)
