Russia’s security service said on Thursday it had detained several people in Crimea, accusing them of being saboteurs sent by Kiev to the Moscow-annexed peninsula to attack infrastructure targets. Russia’s FSB security service yesterday “detained members of a sabotage-terrorist group from the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian defence ministry,” it said in a statement.
The group “planned to carry out acts of sabotage on objects of military and public infrastructure,” and had in its possession “powerful explosive devices, weapons, ammunition” and communication equipment, the FSB said.