Sergei Aksyonov, Russia’s top official in the illegally-annexed Crimean peninsula, claimed on Wednesday that Russian FSB security forces have “neutralized” an Islamist terrorist cell.
Russia’s statements and the timing of the arrest implied, without stating outright, that these terrorists could have been responsible for the destruction of an ammunition depot in Crimea on Tuesday.
The FSB repeated Aksyonov’s accusation that “Ukrainian emissaries” gave the cell its marching orders. Russian state media International human rights groups, Western nations, and the Ukrainian government have accused the Russians of using the Hizb ut-Tahrir bugbear as an excuse to throw Tatars in jail and consolidate their grip on Crimea. The Russians, in turn, frequently depict Hizb ut-Tahrir as a proxy for Ukraine and its Western allies to undermine their occupation of the peninsula.
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