Franz Klintsevich
First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Franz Klintsevich believes that the Russian soldiers in the Crimea might have been kidnapped to exchange for earlier detained on the Peninsula saboteurs. This opinion Senator said in comments to the editors”.ru” on Tuesday, November 22.
“We have every reason to believe that this provocation was authorized by the highest officials of Ukraine. I do not exclude that pursued quite specific goal — to exchange abducted by Russian military on Ukrainian saboteurs detained in the Crimea”, — said the Senator.
According to him, the incident — “piracy in its worst forms”. Klintsevich also expressed hope that Ukraine “has already received a notice about what will Russia’s position be if this ugly incident will remain unresolved”.
Earlier Tuesday, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the detention and removal warrant officer Maxim Odintsov and younger Sergeant of contract service Alexander Baranov on the territory of the Nikolaev area of Ukraine is provocation. The Minister added that the situation carried out by Russian law enforcement agencies.
The defense Ministry reported about the incident the day before. The Department believes that Kiev is trying to fabricate against the Russians a criminal case.
In SBU, in turn, said that the detained deserters, who formerly served in the Ukrainian army, and after joining Crimea to Russia went to serve in Russian. “After they crossed the border at Chongar, it became clear that there are criminal cases in this respect they were detained,” — said in the secret service.