
In the annexed Crimea near the border with continental Ukraine, there was a shootout of the Russian military with security officials from the FSB border service. As reported on the website of the President of Ukraine, this was announced at a meeting with the head of state Petro Poroshenko by the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence, Lieutenant General Valery Kondratyuk.
When exactly the skirmish occurred, it is not specified. The publication says that the heads of power structures reported to the president about the latest events on the border.
Information about the dead and victims in the meeting report is also not given.
At the meeting, in which the heads of power structures and the Foreign Ministry took part, Poroshenko ordered all armed units on the border of continental Ukraine and Crimea to enhanced combat readiness. He gave the same order in relation to the troops on the entire line of contact in the Donbass and the Azov region.
In enhanced combat readiness, both the army units and units of the National Guard, the State Border Service and the SBU should be given. Border guards were also ordered to tighten the checkpoint on the checkpoint, and the National Guard and the police - to strengthen the protection of strategic objects and infrastructure objects in order to avoid terrorist attacks.
Mid, among other things, was instructed to organize consultations regarding the Crimean events in the UN Security Council, informing the Security Council in detail about the development of events. In addition, Poroshenko demanded to contact the OSCE special monitoring mission to increase the number of observers on the border with the annexed Crimea, and also achieved from the Russian side to the peninsula.
Along with this, the President of Ukraine instructed him to organize a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin.
On Wednesday, the FSB announced the prevention of terrorist attacks and sabotage, allegedly preparing Ukrainian intelligence in Crimea. It was argued that two Russian security forces died during the detention of terrorists; It was also declared the death of one Ukrainian saboteur and a few more wounds. In addition, the special service announced the disclosure on the peninsula of the Ukrainian agents.
FSB in the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol opened the case of the preparation of terrorist attacks and sabotage. In the case, citizens of both Ukraine and Russia were detained. The name of one of the defendants is known - this is 39 -year -old Evgeny Panov from the city of Energodar Zaporizhzhya region, a civil activist and a former participant in the ATO. It is called one of the organizers of the attacks.
Now the State Border Service of Ukraine is checking whether Panov has left the continent to the annexed peninsula. The results of the audit, however, will not be published. In support of this security forces refer to the law on personal data.
Putin accused Ukraine on Wednesday in Wednesday of taking on the path of terror. Poroshenko rejected the prosecution, saying that it was Russia who practices terrorist methods in relation to his country, and having built them to the level of state policy.
On the morning of August 11, Putin held a meeting of the Russian Security Council at which he discussed additional “security measures” in Crimea. At the same time, it became known that from Thursday to Saturday the Black Sea Fleet conducts exercises to counteract underwater saboteurs.