FSB announced the connection of the Ukrainian intelligence with the organization "Mejlis"

It is clarified that the information came from those detained for blowing up a gas pipeline in the village of Perevalnoye.

“According to the detainees, in addition to participating in the preparation of the sabotage, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine through the Mejlis tried to organize protest actions of the Crimean Tatar population against the legitimate actions of the authorities and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Crimea,” the service said.

Earlier, lawyer Emil Kurbedinov said that in Crimea, the police detained five people, allegedly involved in the damage to the gas pipeline.

Later it became known that the court arrested two suspects in committing a sabotage on a gas pipeline in Crimea and one suspected of complicity in this crime.

* "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People" is a public association recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea of ​​04/26/2016 and an appeal ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 09/29/2016).