The State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine denies that the “patriots” detained in Crimea belong to the agency.

Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skribitsky denies belonging to the department of Ukrainians who were detained by Russian security forces in Crimea, the reports . 112 Ukraine TV channel

“The data that exists, and it is in media sources, indeed, these are citizens of Ukraine, patriots, but they do not apply to employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region,” Skibitsky asserts.

According to him, the department analyzed the names given during interrogation by the detained Ukrainian Yevgeny Panov. “One thing can be said: most likely, under physical pressure from FSB agents, Ukrainian citizen Panov gave information regarding those employees, those Ukrainian citizens who acted with him. But in response to the question regarding the personnel employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate, I can tell you that over the past two years, not a single one of the personnel employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region was detained in the territory of occupied Crimea, and all the citizens, all the names named by Panov, these persons do not belong to the employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate MO,” says a department representative.

The night before, the FSB released a video recording of the interrogation of Yevgeny Panov, detained on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. During this interrogation, Panov calls himself a career employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate and claims that, together with other officers of the service, the names of some of them he mentions, he received the task of preparing a series of sabotage activities on the territory of the peninsula. It was during this task that he was detained.

On August 11, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol arrested Evgeniy Panov for two months, the hearing was held behind closed doors.

On August 10, the FSB reported that terrorist attacks in Crimea had been prevented. So on the night of August 7, a group of saboteurs was discovered in the Armyansk area. During their arrest, a clash occurred and one FSB officer was killed. In addition, it was reported that on the night of August 8, saboteurs tried to break through two more times, hiding behind massive shelling, but they were stopped by law enforcement officers. A Russian serviceman was killed in this clash. in connection with the preparation of sabotage have so far been detained Seven people ; several saboteurs have escaped . Mediazona followed reports about events in Crimea.