"This is Russia tearing out Independence Day to Ukraine"

The first reaction of the official Kyiv to the incident in Crimea

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denied the information widespread by the FSB of the Russian Federation regarding the participation of the departments of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in sabotage activities in the territory of the annexed Crimea. “Similar statements from the FSB are nothing more than an attempt to justify the reconnaissance and aggressive actions of the military units of the Russian Federation in the territory of the temporarily occupied peninsula,” the statement published on the website of the military department said. The ministry argues that in this way, representatives of the Russian special services "try to divert the attention of the local population of Crimea and the world community from actions to turn the peninsula into an isolated military base."

“The accusations regarding the shelling of the peninsula from the mainland part of Ukraine are the same groundless,” the Ministry of Defense emphasizes.

So far, the Novaya correspondent was not able to contact the head of the press service of the GUR MO Colonel Nikolai Krasnom: his phone does not answer.

The Security Service of Ukraine represented by the adviser of the head of the SBU Yuri Tandita refutes the FSB statements: "Ukraine does not capture and does not return its territory by force, and will not do this."

The General Staff calls what happened is a provocation of the FSB. In a commentary for Radio “Freedom”, the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Vladislav Seleznev said: “These events began to develop in the morning of August 7. And literally immediately in social networks on the territory of the occupied Crimea there were reports that some sabotage and reconnaissance groups were supposed from the Ukrainian side and performed some tasks. We immediately responded to this, saying that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in certain areas, at certain strongholds, perform tasks on a planned manner, and any statements of this kind are provocative. ”

The day before, Ukrainian analysts, British Daily Sun and Expres and American Newsweek and Radio Liberty talked about the galloping militarization of Crimea, the movement of military equipment and blocking the access points on the administrative border with the peninsula.

General Yevgeny Marchuk, in the past - the head of the SBU and the Minister of Defense of the country, who now represents Ukraine in Minsk, in the trilateral contact group to resolve the war in the Donbass, literally wrote on Facebook about the growing supply of weapons to Russia to Crimea. And he concluded: “In my opinion, Russia is simply preparing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine. (August 24,-Auth.) Russia cannot reconcile so that the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence has passed normally, so that the leaders of the leading countries of the world come to Kyiv, to the celebration. ”

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