FSB brought charges against Ukrainian terrorists in Crimea
Moscow - Simferopol, April 2 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The FSB has completed an investigation into the criminal case regarding the preparation of a series of terrorist attacks in Crimea on the eve of Victory Day celebrations in May last year. Investigators began to bring charges against the defendants, one of whom is the famous Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, in the final version. Another defendant, Gennady Afanasyev, who admitted his guilt, received seven years in prison under a special order.
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As a reminder, the FSB opened a high-profile criminal case on May 9 of last year regarding the preparation of a series of terrorist attacks in Crimea. According to some reports, Alexey Chirniy, a professor at the Simferopol Institute of Culture, was arrested at the time. Counterintelligence agents allegedly followed him for a long time and caught him red-handed while removing a homemade bomb from its hiding place. The other three suspected terrorists were soon apprehended. The case gained significant attention because one of those arrested was renowned Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, Kommersant reports.
As follows from the FSB statement, all four were related to the sabotage and terrorist group “Right Sector”. This group, according to the intelligence service, was preparing terrorist attacks in Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol, and later planned “the destruction of a number of vital infrastructure, railway bridges, and power lines.” Directly on the holiday, May 9, the saboteurs allegedly wanted to blow up the Lenin monument and the Eternal Flame memorial complex, but were neutralized in a timely manner.
The FSB has charged Ukrainian terrorists in Crimea.