Russia 24 TV Channel Airs ‘Confessions’ of Ukrainians Accused in Crimea

Friday, 12 August 2016, 18:36

TV channel Russia 24 showed a video of interrogation of several men, one of them — Andriy Zakhtiy. He says on camera that he "followed the orders of Ukrainian Defence Intelligence on transporting of the saboteurs and their baggage around Crimea."

Andriy Zakhtiy

In addition, the video features a monologue of a man named Ridvan Suleimanov from Zaporizhzhia oblast, who identifies as a Ukrainian. He claims that he was recruited as Defense Intelligence agent in 2015 and received call sign ‘Yuzef’.

On August 11, Russian TV channel showed the video of interrogation of Yevhen Panov whom Russian special services accuse of organizing terror attacks in Crimea. The court decided to keep Panov in detention for two months as a pretrial restrictive measure.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda