Are there any penetrated?

What is known about shooting on the border of Crimea, and is a terrorist threat preserved?

On Wednesday, the Federal Security Service announced the prevention of terrorist acts organized by the Crimean employees of the department of terrorist acts, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

“As a result of the operational-search measures on the night of August 6 to August 7, 2016, a group of saboteurs was discovered in the area of ​​the city of Armenian of the Republic of Crimea. When the terrorists were detained as a result of fire contact, an employee of the FSB of Russia died, the department said. “At the place of clashes,: 20 homemade explosive devices with a total capacity of more than 40 kilograms in TNT equivalent, ammunition and special initiation tools, regular anti -personnel and magnetic mines, as well as grenades and overalls, are armed with special units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

As it managed to find out the Novaya Gazeta, the sabotage group was discovered by the village of Suvorovo three kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The FSB who tried to detain them, saboteurs resisted and, apparently, disappeared. So, in the information certificate received at the Sunday Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at 4:30 in the morning of Sunday, the situation is described as follows: “On August 7, at 3 hours at the village of Suvorovo, the UFSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea discovered about seven people in the Republic of Crimea, presumably, the Diversion and Distribution Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the course of clashes, there are losses among the personnel of the FSB. The flap of clashes was blocked by the forces of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Republic of Crimea, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic and units of the Federal Service of the Troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation. Search activities are held. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Armyansk, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Krasnoperekopsky" and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Dzhankoysky" introduced the plan "Fortress". For other territorial internal affairs bodies, protection has been strengthened. ”

For reference: the “Fortress” plan is the mobilization of personnel for measures to suppress the seizure of objects of internal affairs and internal troops.

On the night of August 8, they say in the FSB, special forces of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine again made two unsuccessful attempts to make a breakthrough of the Crimean border. “The breakthrough attempts were covered by massive shelling from the adjacent state and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the fire contact, a soldier of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation died, ”the FSB said.

The department also noted that on the territory of the Crimean peninsula, the agent network of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was liquidated.

The names of the dead employees of the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Defense are not called. The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia on the facts of attempts to break through the state border opened a criminal case. The name of one of the alleged organizers is already known: the FSB considers such a 39-year-old resident of Zaporozhye Yevgeny Panov, who, according to representatives of the department, is an employee of Ukrainian intelligence. “He gives confession,” the FSB noted.

The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine of the charges of organizing a breakthrough of the Crimean border was rejected, calling the information of the FSB “fake”. Advisor to the head of the SBU Yuri Tandit made a statement in a similar manner: “Ukraine does not capture and does not return its territory by force, and will not do this. I can completely turn the statement of the FSB or the Ministry of Defense. That is, we will not force our territory by force. She is ours and so, by right of ownership. "

It should be noted that neither the fighters of the Ukrainian Right Sector prohibited in Russia, nor activists of the organizer of the blockade of Crimea Lenur Islyamov, did not take responsibility for shootings on the Crimean Ukrainian border.

The answer to the question of the involvement or non -involvement of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies in the events on the Crimean isthmus will probably be received later. Now another question remains open and no less important: is the threat of terrorist attacks remain?

A few hours before the publication of the FSB report, the Novaya correspondent managed to get acquainted with the orientation, widespread among the employees of the district police. This is what it says in it:

“Five persons are looking for a serious crime in the city of Armyansk, moving both by road and on foot.

All are dressed in camouflage shape, chevrons with the image of the flag of the Russian Federation with a rhombus located in the lower part are placed on the camouflage. Two signs:

1. Growth 180-195 centimeters, athletic physique, hair blond, in appearance 30-35 years.

2. The hair is light, age 30-35 years.

These persons are armed with firearms. ”

The correspondent of Novaya turned to the FSB in the Republic of Crimea for a commentary. The employee of the duty unit, having listened to the question of whether it was possible to detain the people indicated in the orientation, said: “I will not comment on anything. Suddenly, you are not at all the one for whom you give yourself up. Send an official request. ”

We ask a question to the Federal Security Service officially: have it managed to neutralize all participants in the terrorist-sabotage group, or some of them are still looking for, and the threat of their attacks in the Crimea is preserved?

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Another source in the power structures of Crimea also confirmed Novaya Gazeta information about the orientation, which the FSB gave to the employees of non -departmental security a day earlier. The security forces are asked to pay attention to the high young people of Slavic appearance at all checkpoints in the Crimean Range and Baydar Gate. According to the interlocutor, the distribution of orientation may mean that the border breakthrough has nevertheless occurred, and several people from the sabotage group can be located in the Crimea.