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Russia, Ukraine clash over Crimea arrest
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KYIV, Sept 7 - Russia's FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine of organizing an attack on a gas pipeline in Russian-annexed Crimea, an allegation rejected by Kyiv which said Moscow was trying to punish prominent Crimean Tatar figures, Reuters reported.

The FSB accused the Ukrainian military intelligence service and the Mejlis, the outlawed representative body of the Crimean Tatars, of conspiring to blow up the pipeline on Aug. 23 outside the city of Simferopol.

Ukraine responded by accusing Russia of staging a fake plot to arrest a Crimean Tatar leader for political reasons.

On Monday, a court in Crimea ordered Nariman Dzhelyalov, ex-deputy chairman of the Mejlis, to be held in custody for two months over the incident.

Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 drew Western sanctions. Western countries and most of the rest of the world recognise the Black Sea peninsula as Ukrainian, and Kyiv wants the territory returned.

The FSB said in a statement that the perpetrators of the blast had been promised a payment of around $2,000 by Ukraine's military intelligence. The Russian authorities launched a criminal case into sabotage, an offence that can carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

Mykola Krasnyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military intelligence, denied any involvement in the pipeline incident.

Ukraine's foreign ministry cast the accusations and the jailing of Dzhelyalov as punishment for a summit held in Kyiv last month aimed at maintaining international attention on securing the return of Crimea to Ukraine.

"The Russian Federation, as an occupying power, is obliged under international law to immediately end political repression against the local population of the Crimean peninsula," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko told Reuters.

Russia banned the Mejlis in 2016, branding it an "extremist" body. Many Crimean Tatars were opposed to the Russian annexation of the peninsula.

The United States, an ally of Ukraine, has accused Moscow of targeting the Mejlis and its leadership and called for Dzhelyalov's release. (om/ez)




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