UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had eliminated a spy ring organized by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in Crimea, detaining both Russian and Ukrainian nationals involved in preparing terrorist attacks on the peninsula. A FSB officer died as a result of a firefight during the arrest.
"If their [Russia’s] allegations on what happened, this so-called terrorist attempt of Ukraine across the border with Crimea, if it happened in reality, where are the proofs — statements, pictures, videos, whatever?" Yelchenko stated after a special UN Security Council meeting on Crimea.
The FSB also said it had prevented two overnight attempts by Kiev-organized terrorist groups from entering Crimea on August 8, in which one Russian soldier was killed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incidents a "very dangerous game," adding that Ukraine's authorities had resorted to terrorism instead of looking for peaceful solutions to the conflict in the east of the country.
