The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) announced on Thursday the arrest of a group of suspected Ukrainian saboteurs at Sevastopol, who allegedly planned terrorist attacks against military targets and vital infrastructure in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in March 2014 , Reuters reported, citing the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

FSB claims that it confiscated the explosive devices and weapons during the arrest of the group, formed, according to him, of the intelligence agents of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, transmits agerpres.ro

According to RIA Novosti, the alleged detention of Ukrainian saboteurs took place on Wednesday.

In Sevastopol is positioned a  Russian Fleet base from the Black Sea.