Russia’s FSB has detained yet another Ukrainian on bizarre charges of ‘spying’ for the Ukrainian Defence Ministry. The story, like most FSB arrests of Ukrainians, is based solely on a videoed ‘confession’, but there are some curious differences. The 27-year-old, who is unnamed, is supposed to have spied on the Kremlin-backed militants of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR], as well as in the Rostov oblast and Samara in Russia. As well as being unnamed, the man’s appearance is blurred.
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A Russian armoured personnel carrier drives on a road in the Russian-Ukrainian border area some 30 km outside the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region, on August 17, 2014.
