Limeshko, a native of
Ukraine’s Kharkov region, was a senior intelligence operative at a regiment
deployed in the east of the country.
SIMFEROPOL, May 11.
/TASS/. The city court in Sudak, the Republic of Crimea, on Thursday issued a
sentence for eight years in a general penitentiary to the Ukrainian citizen
Gennady Limeshko, a former military intelligence operative of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces who planned subversive acts in Crimea, the press service of the
Crimean branch of the FSB federal security service said on Thursday.
"The Sudak city
court has found Limeshko guilty of the offenses he was charged with and it has
issued a sentence to him for eight years in a general prison," the press
release said.
Limeshko was found
guilty of an illegal manufacturing of an explosive device and an illegal
purchase, storage and carrying of explosives and munitions committed by a group
of persons upon complicity.
Limeshko, a native of
Ukraine’s Kharkov region, was a senior intelligence operative at a regiment
deployed in the east of the country. The Russian authorities detained him last
August. Two TNT blocks, a mechanism for setting an explosive device off, a
grenade for an RDG-5 grenade launcher, and containers with an inflammable
mixture were confiscated from him.
Information released
by the law enforcement agencies said he arrived in Crimea on August 9, 2017,
for the purpose of blowing up a high-voltage power transmission line between
the towns of Sudak and Novy Svet. This subversion would have left more than
50,000 people in a blackout.
He was detained while
making a cut in a pylon.
A law enforcement
source also told TASS the SBU had instructed Limeshko to organize a number of
explosions and arsons in Crimea in order to disrupt the normal functioning of
transportation and infrastructure facilities.
Source: ITAR-TASS
11-05-2018
