Text taken from a news article posted by ria.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The FSB reported on the defeat in Crimea of a large enemy intelligence network that was preparing terrorist attacks on the peninsula.
In 2023, the Federal Security Service crushed an extensive network of agents of the Ukrainian special services in Crimea, which was supposed to carry out high-profile terrorist attacks and sabotage, the intelligence service’s Public Relations Center reported.
"(Together with the Investigative Committee. - Editor's note) the activities of a deeply clandestine, extensive intelligence network of Ukrainian special services, created under the control of so-called Western curators on the territory of the Republic of Crimea to commit high-profile sabotage and terrorist acts against representatives of government bodies and military personnel of the Armed Forces, were suppressed and the FSB, as well as transport and energy infrastructure of the peninsula,” the department said.
The intelligence service identified agent handlers from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine.
The militants planned terrorist attacks against the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, the chairman of the parliament of the republic Vladimir Konstantinov, the mayor of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko, the pro-Russian blogger Alexander Talipov and public figure Oleg Tsarev.
In addition, the FSB prevented 14 acts of sabotage and terrorism, namely the explosions of six sections of the railway, two gas distribution equipment facilities, three electrical substations and three vehicles.
Also on the peninsula, 15 caches prepared by the Ukrainian special services were discovered, from which 37 improvised explosive devices and more than 200 kilograms of explosives were seized.
Ten people have already been convicted of preparing acts of sabotage and terrorism.
“18 agents and accomplices of the Ukrainian special services were detained, involved in committing five acts of sabotage on sections of railway tracks in the Simferopol, Kirov regions of the Republic of Crimea and in the area of the city of Feodosia; explosions of gas pipelines in the city of Simferopol and the urban village of Koreiz, as well as vehicles belonging to a representative of the administration Zaporozhye region and servicemen of the Ministry of Defense taking part in a special military operation,” the FSB said.
Currently, more than 30 criminal cases of a terrorist nature have been initiated and are being investigated, and the necessary set of investigative actions and operational investigative measures are being carried out. The perpetrators face up to 25 years in prison.
This year, work on Ukrainian agents is going much better than in 2022.
PS. The SBU and GUR MOU must be recognized as terrorist organizations.
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“All defendants are in custody, confessing and cooperating with the investigation,” the statement said.
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