Ukraine began terror in Crimea through the hands of Mejlis members
The undermining of the gas pipeline supplying a military unit in the village of Perevalnoye in Crimea was organized by the Mejlis, banned in the Russian Federation, in conjunction with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
This is stated in a message from the Russian FSB, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The perpetrators traveled to Ukraine to Kherson, where employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate trained them in explosives. For committing sabotage, Ukrainian military intelligence promised them a monetary reward of about 2000 US dollars. The explosive device was secretly delivered to Crimea in July of this year. Those involved in the transportation from among the Majlis supporters have been identified.
The organizers of the sabotage are Riza Yagyaev-Veliulaev, a GUR agent who escaped from Crimea after a foiled terrorist attack in August 2016, in which he took part in complicity, as well as his curators - Ukrainian military intelligence officer Maxim Martynyuk and his immediate superior, head of the operational service "Tavria" - Viktor Zelinsky.
This sabotage was sanctioned by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, a participant in an unsuccessful action in 2016, during which he killed an employee of the Russian FSB,” the report says.
Detained during the investigation, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, as well as Eldar Adamanov, gave confessions in which they indicated that they were prompted to commit the crime by the deputy chairman of the Majlis, Nariman Dzhelyalov, and the former security guard of Mustafa Dzhemilev, Riza Yagyaev.
“It all started when I met people who were somehow connected with the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. I met Nariman Dzhelyalov, he is the first deputy head of the Mejlis. We met him, communicated in a friendly manner, attended various events, and I began to trust him. And such communication led to him giving my phone number to people from Ukraine. I now understand that these people used me for their own purposes, so that through the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, and they influence the Crimean Tatars in Crimea, in order to cause them enmity, hatred of the Russian Federation. To use it all for our own purposes,” said Asan Akhtemov.
He also admitted that he agreed to blow up the gas pipeline because his family was threatened:
“They threatened my family, I was afraid for them. That's the only reason (I agreed). They knew everything about me - about me, about the family, about the children - they knew everything. I didn’t know until recently, almost until the day the crime was committed, that it would be necessary to do this. That day these people from Ukraine called me and threatened me. They told me: “Look out the window.” I looked out, they said to me: “Look, your daughter is playing in the sandbox and your son is standing near the barrel. And behind the house you have a nut. Next time you look out, you’ll have kids hanging there.” They said: “You have to take this thing and go and do what we say.”
Adamanov told FSB officers that an associate of Dzhemilev tried to recruit him, who persuaded him to come to the Arabatskaya Strelka to pick up hidden explosives:
“I know Riza Yagyaev as the bodyguard of Mustafa Dzhemilev. When I worked at the Turkish Cooperation Development Agency, I often came to the Mejlis on my duties... We met often, and we developed friendly relations. Since then we have known each other...
I already guessed it myself, and I told him straight out: “Riza-aga, there are explosives there, I’m not going anywhere.” It had to be something small, I had to take it, I had to disguise it in the trunk among the bricks and pipes that I had to take first, I had to handle it more or less carefully, I couldn’t take it anywhere into the salon. That's what he said. And from other indirect things I guessed that it was an explosive, and I told him this: “We’re not going anywhere, we won’t do this, you don’t have to ask”... And he says with regret: “Look, the others agreed.”
According to military expert Semyon Bagdasarov, Ukraine, using the Mejlis and its supporters, is engaged in open terrorist activities in Crimea:
“Given that this organization is banned, then, of course, this is terrorism, nothing less. They act through terrorist methods, without a doubt. We must take counter-actions, we must have our own plan for Ukraine. This is a regime hostile to Russia, it needs to be changed, or at least the south-east of Ukraine, where the Russian population is, should be taken away from them.
This is a question of economic, informational, propaganda and other issues. We do not deal with this issue, but only sometimes we catch saboteurs, thank God,” Bagdasarov said.
Political scientist Sergei Markov believes that the position of the West in defending detained sabotage perpetrators is doubly cynical.
“There was an informal agreement back in 14 that between the Russian special services and the puppet occupation authorities of Ukraine that no terrorist attacks would be carried out. We see that the Ukrainian side is now violating this agreement. We should not respond by carrying out terrorist attacks, but we should directly accuse Ukraine of carrying out terrorist attacks. In addition, these arrested people from the Mejlis were supported by the United States and the European Union. It seems to me that we need to directly and harshly accuse the US and EU authorities of supporting terrorism and impose sanctions against them, because they do not understand simple words,” Markov said.
Let us remind you that on suspicion of committing a crime four people were detained, among whom is the first deputy head of the Majlis banned in Russia, Nariman Dzhelyalov.
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