Russia dismantles Ukrainian extremist group
(Baonghean.vn) - On May 21, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had dismantled the activities of an extremist group, established by an assistant to a Ukrainian parliamentarian under the orders of the leader of the "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People" (an organization banned by the Moscow government from operating on Russian territory).
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| Russia dismantles a Ukrainian extremist group. Photo: AP |
The FSB statement stated: “The Russian Federal Security Service, together with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, has dismantled the activities of an extremist group created by Erol Veliyev, an assistant to Ukrainian MP Dzhemilev, on the instructions of Chubarov, the leader of the ‘Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars’, an organization banned in Russia, with the support of the Security Service of Ukraine.”
According to the FSB, the extremist group planned to commit the crime “to intimidate pro-Russian Crimean Tatars and aggravate ethnic tensions” in Crimea.
The FSB also stressed that members of this extremist group used petrol bombs to set fire to the house of Crimean Muslim cleric Emirali Ablaev in January. According to the FSB, members of this group were also promised a reward of $500 for each operation carried out in Crimea.
