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Russia: We arrested three Ukrainian agents, one of whom planned an attack
Security services said the other two had gathered intelligence on strategic sites in the country.
The arrest of the three comes at a time when Kiev and the West fear a Russian offensive
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Thursday, 02 December 2021, 09:45 Updated: 10:58
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Russia has arrested three people on suspicion of being Ukraine's intelligence agents, Interfax news agency reported today (Thursday), quoting federal security services. One of them was accused of planning an attack, and the other two of gathering intelligence on strategic sites in Russia. Their arrest comes amid fears in Kiev and the west of Russia's large concentration of forces on the Ukrainian border.
The United States has warned Russia of serious consequences if it attacks Ukraine. Its defense minister, Lloyd Austin, said today that the US response would be in cooperation with the international community, and called on Moscow to act transparently in relation to its large concentration of forces at the border. During a visit to South Korea, Austin expressed hope that the United States and Russia could work together to "solve problems and concerns and lower temperatures in the region."
When asked if the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine would be purely economic, Austin refused to respond directly and contented himself with saying that only the "best measures" would be used in such a scenario. "Everything that is done, will be part of the international community. The best case scenario is that we do not see the Soviet invasion of Ukraine," said Austin, who inadvertently called Russia the Soviet Union.
Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union, aspires to join the European Union and NATO. In recent years, it has become the line of confrontation between Russia and the West, whose relations are at their worst since the end of the Cold War 30 years ago. long between the two countries.
Moscow, on the other hand, accuses Kiev construction of military force threatens to Masada and the desire to regain control by force the territories separatist east of the country. it denies that it is preparing to invade Ukraine, which annexed the Crimea, but contends that its right to deploy troops on its territory as Sees fit.
Yesterday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is visiting Europe to express support for the continent in the face of Russian aggression, warned that the sanctions to be imposed on Moscow if it attacked Ukraine would be more severe than those imposed to date.
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