Russian media reported that security has been stepped up in Crimea. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Russia’s FSB security service said on Monday it had thwarted a Ukrainian assassination attempt on Mr Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of Crimea, arresting a Ukrainian agent before he was able to blow up Mr Aksyonov’s car.
His plan, it said, had been to blow up Mr Aksyonov’s car, but he had been detained as he tried to retrieve an explosive device from a hiding place.It said he had entered Crimea in June and that it was investigating him on suspicion of “attempting to commit a terrorist act” and “of illegally possessing explosives.”
Ukraine has pledged to retake full control of Crimea, the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, as well as large areas of eastern and southern Ukraine that Russia has captured since launching what it calls its “special military operation” last year, something Kyiv and the West call a brutal war of conquest.
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