MOSCOW – Russian security forces arrested on Thursday a member of its fleet of the Crimean city of Sebastopol, in the Black Sea, under suspicion of spying to be the intelligence component of the Ukrainian army, the Russian RIA news firm reported on Thursday, introducing the Federal Security Service.
The FSB did not call the member or give him his rank. Texplacountry why it is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Masked men dressed as civilians could be seen coming out of a van, grabbing a guy in the street and regrouping him in the back of the vehicle before leaving it in photographs of the arrest shown through RIA.
Russia annexed Crimea to Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine dreams of the peninsulos angels coming back. (Reports through Maxim Rodionov; Written through Tom Balmforth; Edited through Alison Williams)
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