Russia arrests unnamed man for passing military secrets to Ukraine
Russian man detained in Crimea on suspicion of treason for sharing military secrets to Ukraine, says Russia's federal security service
Russian man detained in Crimea on suspicion of treason for sharing military secrets to Ukraine, says Russia’s federal security service
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained a Russian man in Crimea on suspicion of treason, accusing him of passing military secrets to Ukraine, according to a state news agency.
In a statement quoted by RIA, the FSB said that the unnamed man had “collected and transmitted information about specified sites with reference to geographic coordinates to a representative of the Ukrainian military”.
Crimea, which is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, has been under de facto Russian control since 2014.
It lies on a peninsula stretching out from the south of Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Meanwhile, Russia has said its ‘ready’ for talks’ on post-conflict settlement of Ukraine.
Speaking at the Xiangshan forum, China’s largest annual military diplomacy event, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said his country was ready for talks on further “co-existence” with the West, Russia’s TASS news agency reports.
But he warned that the West was seeking to potentially expand the conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.
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“In case the necessary conditions are created, we remain ready for political discussions on a realistic basis – both on the post-conflict resolution of the Ukrainian crisis and on the further coexistence with the West as a whole,” he said.
He further warned that Western countries needed to stop seeking Russia’s strategic defeat. The conditions for talks had not yet been met, he said.
Shoigu also appeared to play down Russia’s decision to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, claiming it did not mean the end of the agreement, and that Russia was not lowering its threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.
“We are only seeking to restore parity with the United States, who have not ratified this treaty,” Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Shoigu as saying. “We are not talking about its destruction.”
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