On Friday night, the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine refused to approve the system of collecting and processing of electronic income declarations of state officials.
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.”
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved an extended sanction list of persons involved in illegal sentencing and other unlawful actions against Ukrainian citizens. The list was tabled with the National Security and Defense Council for endorsement.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has refused to report whether it organized surveillance of Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Pavel Sheremet and Founding Editor Olena Prytula.
The so-called “people’s republics” of occupied rayons of Donetska and Luhanska Oblasts (ORDO and ORLO), which are backed by the Russian government, are planning large scale provocations throughout entire line of contact in the ATO zone
On the night of August 11, Russian Special Services again blocked the border crossing on the administrative border between Crimea and Ukraine’s mainland.
Russian law enforcement officers are searching the home of Crimean Tatar Refat Mazalov, the Head of the Election Commission of Qurultay Zair Smedlyayev [Zair Smedlâyev] reports.
Patrol boats and ships have been on 24-hour duty at the entrance to Sevastopol Bay for several days now, Krym Realii reports. According to eyewitnesses, they appeared on August 7, after the events at the administrative border with the occupied Crimea.
MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko who was put on a wanted list in Ukraine is convinced that the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office (GPU) will not be able to convince the British justice system to extradite him.
Another ‘saboteur from Ukrainian Defense Intelligence’ arrested by the FSB is a Lviv-born resident of Yevpatoria who worked in construction, according to a statement of the Crimean Human Rights Group.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine addressed EU member states, US, Canada, Japan, and the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs asking them to influence Russia in order to avoid a new round of aggression related to the latest events in Crimea.