Shootout in Crimea: Russia’s “Anti-terrorism
Agency” (FSB) vs Ukrainian Saboteurs
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=173378#173378
The FSB interception of Ukrainian sabotage groups
attempting to infiltrate Crimea raise tensions.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/shootout-in-crimea-russias-fsb-vs-ukrainian-saboteurs/5540655
By Alexander Mercouris - Global Research, August 11, 2016
Anyone who has been following Ukraine related
news over the last few days will be aware of
reports of Russian troop movements in Crimea, of
a shoot out there between the Russian security
forces and alleged Ukrainian infiltrators which
left several people dead, and of claims that
Ukrainian sabotage groups had attempted to infiltrate the peninsula.
On 10th August 2016 came final confirmation of
the incident from Russia’s counterintelligence
and anti terrorism agency, the FSB (full
statement attached below). It reported separate
incidents involving three Ukrainian sabotage
groups connected to the Main Intelligence
Directorate of Ukraine’s Defence Ministry, shoot
outs between FSB operatives and the Russian
military and the Ukrainian military across the
border line, and the deaths of one FSB operative
and of one Russian soldier caught up in the shoot
outs. Other reports speak of the death of at
least two Ukrainian infiltrators, and of the
capture of several others, which claims however
the FSB report does not confirm. The FSB report
does however speak of twenty improvised explosive
devices containing more than 40 kilograms of TNT
equivalent, ammunition, fuses, antipersonnel and
magnetic bombs, grenades and the Ukrainian armed
forces’ standard special weapons being found in
one of the locations involved in the incident.
The FSB report also says that several Ukrainian
and Russian citizens belonging to an undercover
spy ring operating inside Crimea have been
arrested on charges of planning to help the
saboteurs. The FSB has named the ringleader as
Yevgeny Panov, a resident of Ukraine’s Zaporozhye
region born in 1977, who the FSB says is an
employee of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s Main
Intelligence Directorate. Presumably he has been
working in Crimea for some time under cover. The
FSB says it has arrested him and that he is “giving evidence”.
The FSB has not identified the targets of the
saboteurs other than saying that they were
“critical infrastructure and life support
facilities on the peninsula”. Some Russian media
reports have suggested that the intention was to
create “false flag” incidents that would set
Crimea’s Tatar and Russian communities against
each other. The reference to “critical
infrastructure and life support facilities on the
peninsula” does not however support this. Rather
it suggests an attempt to disrupt power supplies
and possibly water treatment plants at the height
of Crimea’s tourist season and on the eve of the elections.
The Ukrainians for their part deny all these
allegations, claiming that the whole incident has
been invented by the Russians. The Western
media, predictably enough, is following the
Ukrainian line with wild speculations that the
Russians have fabricated the whole incident in
order to justify a Russian invasion of Ukraine during the Olympic Games.
Whilst the full truth of this incident will only
become known over time – when or if people like
Panov are put on trial – there is actually no
reason to doubt that the Russian account is
true. The Russians are hardly likely to arrange
the death of one of their own FSB operatives and
of one of their soldiers in order to fabricate an
incident like this, and the report of the capture
of several of the saboteurs, and the confirmation
of the arrest of the members of the spy ring
which was created to support them, all but
confirms that the Russian claims about this
incident are true. Indeed given that Ukrainian
leaders frequently speak of Ukraine being at war
with Russia it is not difficult to see why they
might authorise a sabotage mission of this sort
in order to disrupt elections which would confirm
the extent of Crimea’s integration into
Russia. Presumably the Ukrainian plan was to
claim that the attacks were the result of local
anti-Russian resistance cells, thereby fostering
the fiction that there is opposition within
Crimea to its unification with Russia. It has
been a cause of serious embarrassment to the
Ukrainian leadership and its Western backers that
there has been no real evidence of such
opposition up to now. The sabotage mission
appears to have been intended to “correct” this.
Two days ago I reported about a meeting Putin had
with his security chiefs which appeared to have
been hurriedly convened in a secret location. I
speculated that the meeting was held to discuss
the situation in Aleppo. Whilst Aleppo
undoubtedly was discussed at this meeting as
shown by the presence of Foreign Minister Lavrov
and the Kremlin’s account of the meeting – which
referred to Putin’s forthcoming meetings with
foreign leaders, of whom the two most important
were President Erdogan of Turkey and President
Rouhani of Iran with whom the topic of Syria and
Aleppo would certainly be discussed – the meeting
between Putin and his security chiefs undoubtedly
also discussed the situation in Crimea, and the
reports of the Ukrainian sabotage mission there.
Might there have been any other purpose to this
Ukrainian sabotage mission other than to create
the appearance of instability in Crimea during
the tourist season and during the coming election
season? Putin in the joint press conference he
held in Moscow following his meeting with
Armenia’s President Sargsyan linked the incident
to the attempted murder of Igor Plotnitsky, the
leader of the Lugansk People’s Republic. If true
that would suggest that having despaired of a
military victory the government in Kiev is now
turning to assassination and sabotage tactics in
order to keep the struggle with Russia going and
to achieve its political goals. Alternatively it
could be that the Ukrainians have carried out
these operations in preparation for the summer
offensive in the Donbass that has been much
talked about but which has yet to happen, though
it is not clear how planting bombs in Crimea
could aid a military offensive in the
Donbass. Yet another explanation is that the
Ukrainians might be sensing a weakening in
European support and might have launched the
operation in order to heighten tensions and to
rally support and to further undermine the Minsk II peace process.
My own opinion is that the most likely
explanation for this frankly reckless action –
which will cause serious embarrassment to some of
Ukraine’s European backers even if they are not
prepared to say so publicly – is the chaotic
condition of the Ukrainian power structure and
the perennial infighting that goes on
there. Given the luridly romantic language many
members of the Maidan movement customarily like
to indulge in I can easily see how the sabotage
operation in Crimea and the murder attempt on
Plotnitsky – if the two are indeed connected –
might have been planned by individuals in Kiev
who might think that the success of such
operations would increase their credibility and
popularity within the Maidan movement and
therefore their chances of achieving political success in Ukraine.
Whatever the precise motivations behind this
incident Putin has made it very clear that the
Russians are taking it extremely seriously. He
has already said that there will no Normandy Four
meeting with Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko at
the forthcoming G20 summit in China. Moreover
and in contrast to what happened following the
trial of Savchenko, whose actions were carried
out in the Donbass and therefore in territory the
Russians continue to recognise as Ukrainian, I
expect the Russians to be much slower to agree to
prisoner exchanges of the Ukrainian operatives
who were involved in this mission and who they
accuse of carrying out or planning to carry out
violent actions on Russian territory.
Here is the text of the statement describing the
incidents which has been provided by the FSB:
“The Russian FSB averted terrorist acts in the
Republic of Crimea that were being prepared by
the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The Russian FSB averted terrorist acts in the
Republic of Crimea that were being prepared by
the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry
of Defence of Ukraine, and which targeted certain
critical infrastructure and life support facilities on the peninsula.
The goal of the attacks was the destabilisation
of the socio-political situation on the peninsula
prior to the approaching elections to the federal
and regional governmental institutions.
The search operations carried out during the
night of 6/7 August 2016 in the vicinity of the
city of Armyansk, Republic of Crimea, uncovered a
group of saboteurs. While attempting to detain
the terrorists, an FSB operative was killed by
enemy gunfire. The following was discovered on
the scene: 20 improvised explosive devices with a
total explosive power of 40kg TNT, munitions,
special detonators, standard-issue anti-personnel
and magnetic land mines, grenades, and
special-issue weapons used by Ukrainian armed forces’ special operations units.
The follow-on measures on the territory of the
Republic of Crimea eliminated a network of agents
operated by the Main Intelligence Directorate of
the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian and Russian
citizens, engaged in the preparation of terrorist
attacks, were arrested, and are now giving
evidence. One of the organisers is Yevgeniy
Aleksandrovich Panov, born 1977, an inhabitant of
the Zaporozhye Region of Ukraine, an operative of
the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukrainian
MOD, who has also been arrested and is giving evidence.
During the night of August 8, 2016, Ukrainian MOD
special operations units attempted two more
infiltrations by saboteur units which were
prevented by the armed units of the FSB and
collaborating entities. The infiltration effort
was covered by heavy fire from the adjacent
country, including by armored vehicles belonging
to Ukrainian military. A Russian soldier was killed by the fire.
On the basis of the investigative and combat
actions, the Crimea FSB Directorate’s
investigations department has launched a criminal
case. Additional investigative measures are being
implemented. Places where large groups of
tourists are concentrating and resting, and
critically important infrastructure and life
support facilities have been taken under
additional security. A strengthened border
control regime has been introduced on the border with Ukraine.”
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