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Latest from Crimea, from our news desk:
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says four members of Ukraine’s radical nationalist group Right Sector have been apprehended in Crimea.
According to an FSB statement on May 30, the four men -- identified only as Sentsov, Afanasyev, Chyrnya, and Kolchenko -- are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Simferopol, Yalta, and Sevastopol.
The FSB statement said the suspects will be charged with terrorism. No more details were given.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that noted filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and two other unnamed Ukrainian nationals had been detained by Russian authorities in Crimea.
The Foreign Ministry said Sentsov had been transferred to a Moscow detention center.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March through a controversial referendum that was condemned as illegal by the United States, European Union, and the UN General Assembly. (ITAR-TASS, Interfax and UNIAN)
According to an FSB statement on May 30, the four men -- identified only as Sentsov, Afanasyev, Chyrnya, and Kolchenko -- are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Simferopol, Yalta, and Sevastopol.
The FSB statement said the suspects will be charged with terrorism. No more details were given.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that noted filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and two other unnamed Ukrainian nationals had been detained by Russian authorities in Crimea.
The Foreign Ministry said Sentsov had been transferred to a Moscow detention center.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March through a controversial referendum that was condemned as illegal by the United States, European Union, and the UN General Assembly. (ITAR-TASS, Interfax and UNIAN)
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11:32
30.5.2014
Ukraine's foreign minister says another convoy of Russian arms stopped on the border.
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12:35
30.5.2014
LATEST from our news desk:
The OSCE says it has lost contact with a second observer team in east Ukraine.
13:11
30.5.2014
More details from our news desk:
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says it has lost contact with a second team of observers in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
The pan-European rights and security body said it could not get in touch with some members of its Luhansk-based team.
The OSCE lost contact with a first team of four civilian observers east of Donetsk on the evening of May 26.
The OSCE has so far not confirmed a claim by Aleksei Chmilenko, a leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, who said on May 30 that the team had been released after their documents were checked.
Chmilenko did not say when the monitors were released.
Separately, a spokesman for the separatists, Volodymyr Inohorodskikh, said on May 30 that the OSCE team had been prevented -- for their own safety -- from leaving overnight during a separatist-imposed curfew. (Reuters, dpa, and Interfax)
The pan-European rights and security body said it could not get in touch with some members of its Luhansk-based team.
The OSCE lost contact with a first team of four civilian observers east of Donetsk on the evening of May 26.
The OSCE has so far not confirmed a claim by Aleksei Chmilenko, a leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, who said on May 30 that the team had been released after their documents were checked.
Chmilenko did not say when the monitors were released.
Separately, a spokesman for the separatists, Volodymyr Inohorodskikh, said on May 30 that the OSCE team had been prevented -- for their own safety -- from leaving overnight during a separatist-imposed curfew. (Reuters, dpa, and Interfax)
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In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the regional administration and other major government buildings remain under the control of pro-Russian separatists. Local journalists have reported that people are being held hostage and tortured in the buildings. A deputy of the district council, Dmytro Verzilov, visited the administration headquarters in an attempt to learn what was happening there. He told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service that he was seized by a group of men and thrown into a dungeon-like cellar full of other captives and released after several hours.
