Crimea's Law Enforcers Detain Ukrainian Would-Be Bomber — Poklonskaya

Crimea's Chief Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya has said that a member of Ukraine's notorious Azov volunteer battalion has been detained as a suspect in a terror plot to detonate a bomb at her office last year.

A member of the notorious Azov volunteer battalion has been detained as a suspect in a plot to stage an explosion at the building of the Republican Prosecutor’s office last year, according to Crimea's Chief Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya.

"The suspect has been detained and a pre-trial restraint has been imposed on him in the form of confinement under guard," Poklsonskaya said.

According to her, the detainee is also suspected of having helped burn down the Chukurcha Mosque in the city of Simferopol last year.

Poklonskaya praised the efforts of the Prosecutor's Office, the operational units of the Interior Ministry's Center for Counteraction to Extremism and the Russian Security Service's Crimean affiliate.

The Azov Battalion is a far-right all-volunteer paramilitary militia affiliated with the National Guard of Ukraine and based in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea in southern Donetsk region.

Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak claimed that currently, there are no volunteer battalions operating in Ukraine.