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MOSCOW, 15 Sep. The FSB revealed details of the preparation by the Ukrainian special services and the «Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people» * sabotage on the gas pipeline in Crimea. In early September, the department officers detained the suspects: the mediator — the deputy chairman of the «Mejlis» * Nariman Dzhelyalov, as well as the direct executors of the sabotage Asan and Aziz Akhtemovs. According to security officials, the explosion was organized by the territorial division of the Ukrainian intelligence in Kherson — «the so-called operational service» Tavria «.
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According to the detainees, in addition to participating in the preparation of sabotage, Ukrainian intelligence, through a banned organization, tried to provoke protests of the Crimean Tatar population against the authorities in the region. “On the instructions of one of its leaders, the perpetrators traveled to Ukraine in Kherson in June, where GUR officers trained them in explosives. For committing sabotage, the military intelligence of Ukraine promised them a monetary reward of about two thousand US dollars, «the FSB added. In July, the explosive device was delivered to Crimea.
One of the suspects in the sabotage in Crimea was toughened up the accusation «The persons involved in the transportation have been identified. The organizers of the sabotage are Riza Yagyaev-Veliulaev, an agent of the GUR who escaped from the Crimea after the disrupted terrorist act in August 2016, in whose complicity he took part, and also its curators — an officer of the military intelligence of Ukraine Maxim Martynyuk and his immediate superior, the head of the Tavria operational service — Viktor Zelinsky, — added the FSB. It is noted that the sabotage was authorized by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov 2016 The detainees face from ten to 15 years. The FSB on August 7, 2016 in the Crimea detained a group of saboteurs, during the operation an FSB officer was killed. At the scene of the shootout, they found 20 improvised explosive devices, ammunition and weapons in service with the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On the night of August 8, the security forces prevented two more attempts to break through to the territory of the peninsula, which were covered by fire from Ukraine and armored vehicles. Two employees were killed. * Extremist organization banned on the territory of Russia.
Zakharova was outraged by the West's reaction to the sabotage in Crimea