Poltorak reacted to the FSB statement: “Crimea is ours, not yours”
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine called the statement of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation an attempt to divert the attention of the residents of Crimea and the world community “from criminal actions to turn the peninsula into an isolated military base.”
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's statement, posted on the agency's website, is written in these tones .
“The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine refutes the information disseminated by the FSB of the Russian Federation about the participation of units of the Main Intelligence Directorate in sabotage activities in the territory of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Such statements by the FSB are nothing more than an attempt to justify the redeployment and aggressive actions of Russian military units on the territory of the occupied peninsula,” the department said.
The Ministry of Defense also called the accusations of shelling the peninsula from the Ukrainian mainland “baseless.”
“Crimea has always been and remains a Ukrainian land, and the population of the peninsula are citizens of Ukraine,” the department assures.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator already reported, today the FSB of the Russian Federation announced the prevention of terrorist attacks in Crimea, prepared by Ukrainian intelligence. The Russian department also announced the death of two Russian servicemen.
Poltorak responded to the FSB's statement: "Crimea is ours, not yours."