The military was accused of shooting at civilians on the night of the detention of “Ukrainian saboteurs” in Crimea

In Crimea, in the vicinity of Armyansk, on the night of August 7, the Russian military wounded two civilians. This was reported to Dozhd by Muzafar Fukala, whom the TV channel calls “a representative of the [banned in the Russian Federation] Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea” (according to other sources , he is the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean village of Voinka).

According to Fukala, who was told about the incident by a friend, at the time of the incident, the victims - a young man and a girl - were driving a car. The military overtook them in a minibus, after which they opened fire "without any conversation." Where exactly this happened is not reported. Baha Aliyev, an acquaintance of the victims, confirmed to Dozhd the information about the shelling.

to Interfax-Ukraine on August 11 A similar incident was reported by a source in the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. According to him, on August 7, “a group of armed Russian paratroopers in a state of extreme alcohol intoxication” stopped a Skoda Fabia car (this brand of car is also called “Rain”) in the vicinity of the Armyansk checkpoint, in which a resident of the village of Suvorovo, Khafiz Mukhamadov, together with a friend went to relatives in Ukraine. Mukhamadov refused to show documents at the request of the military, after which they opened fire - first at the car, then at the passengers.

In a note on the Dozhd website, the names of the victims are not named. The report aired on the TV channel on the evening of August 15 says that the wounded man is a resident of the village of Suvorovo Khafiz Khaydarov.

An Interfax source said that the girl was “slightly wounded”, and the man, who was hit by seven bullets, fell into a coma and was placed in the Krasnoperekopsk hospital “under heavy guard of the military.” "Rain" reports that the victims were hospitalized in Krasnoperekopsk hospital, and then transferred to Simferopol. According to Muzafar Fukala, the girl is in intensive care. The condition of the young man after the transfer, according to the channel, worsened.

After the incident, according to an Interfax-Ukraine source, the soldiers who opened fire on civilians fled. Three of them were subsequently detained by the Russian authorities, two, at the time of publication on August 11, remained at large.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, the Crimean authorities, in response to a request from the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatars, reported that Khamiz Mukhamadov was transporting explosives. "Dozhd" failed to receive official comments on the incident.

• On August 7, information appeared in the media about a shootout in the Crimea near Armyansk on the border with Ukraine. On August 10, the Russian FSB announced that it had succeeded in preventing terrorist attacks planned in Crimea by "Ukrainian saboteurs" under the leadership of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. Clashes with saboteurs, according to the FSB, took place on the night of August 7 and 8. Several people were detained, two were arrested.
• The Ukrainian authorities deny involvement in the preparation of terrorist attacks in the Crimea. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claims that the detainees in this case are not related to intelligence. Ukrainian intelligence also said that a shootout took place in Crimea between the Russian military and FSB border guards, without specifying the time of the incident.