Russia’s FSB security service said on Thursday it had detained a retired officer in its Black Sea naval fleet based in Crimea on suspicion of passing on military secrets to Kiev.
leonid Parkhomenko was detained on Tuesday in the naval port of Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed peninsula.
FSB said the retired second captain had worked in the Black Sea fleet’s headquarters and was still a reservist.
Russian television showed FSB-released footage of a handcuffed mustachioed man with greying hair flanked by FSB officers in balaclavas.