ロシアの治安機関ロシア連邦保安庁は、ウクライナから併合したクリミアの北部の町で今月６日から７日にかけて、現地のインフラ施設へのテロを計画していたグループを拘束し、その際、銃撃戦になって職員１人が死亡したと発表しました。
発表によりますと、拘束したグループの１人はウクライナ国防省の情報部門の職員で、現場からはウクライナ軍の特殊部隊が所有する武器などが押収されたということです。
さらに今月８日にはウクライナ軍がクリミア側に向けて銃撃し、ロシア軍の兵士１人が死亡したとしています。
これについて、ロシアのプーチン大統領は記者会見で、「非常に危険なゲームだ」などと強く非難したうえで、ロシアやウクライナなど合わせて４か国の首脳が、ウクライナ東部の停戦合意を後押しするために行っている首脳会談に出席しない方針を示唆しました。
これに対し、ウクライナの国防省は直ちにロシア側の情報を否定する声明を発表したほか、ポロシェンコ大統領も「ロシアの言い分は、ばかげていて恥知らずだ」と強く反発するコメントを出し、両国関係が一段と緊張する懸念が出ています。
‘Kiev has turned to terrorism’: Putin on foiled sabotage plot in Crimea — RT News
Kiev has turned to the “practice of terrorism” instead of trying to peacefully resolve Ukraine’s crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in commenting on an FSB report that it had foiled terrorist attacks in Crimea plotted by Ukrainian intelligence.
Ukraine is “playing a dangerous game,” the Russian leader said when talking to reporters on Wednesday, while calling Kiev’s actions “stupid and criminal.”
Moscow cannot turn a blind eye to the deaths of its servicemen who were killed during special operations to prevent terrorist attacks in Crimea, Putin said.
Given that the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR MOU) was allegedly behind the thwarted terrorist attacks in Crimea, it is “pointless” to meet with Ukraine’s current authorities to seek a solution to the country’s crisis, Putin said.
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany were to meet in the so-called “Normandy format” to discuss the peace process in Ukraine on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 in China.
However, Kiev has demonstrated that it’s not interested in peaceful negotiations, the Russian president told reporters, adding that he would like to address the matter with Moscow’s American and European partners as well.
“I think it’s obvious that Kiev’s current authorities are not seeking for ways to solve problems through negotiations, but have turned to terrorism,” Putin said, adding that this new development is rather alarming.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Wednesday it had discovered a group of infiltrators in Crimea close to the Ukrainian border. Explosive devices and ammunition used by the Ukrainian Army’s special forces were discovered at the scene, while more attempts by Ukrainian raiding and terrorist groups to break through had been prevented by Russian forces this week, the FSB said.
Kiev refuted the FSB report of a foiled terrorist plot, and instead accused Moscow of provocation.
Stating that Ukraine "condemns terrorism in all its forms," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko refuted accusations that Kiev's military had been plotting to organize attacks on the Russian peninsula. Having called Moscow's FSB reports "senseless and cynical," the Ukrainian leader said Kiev is "committed" to bring back Crimea through "political and diplomatic means."
Blaming the “escalation” on Russia, Ukraine’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Twitter that Moscow “tests West’s reaction.”
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