Accusations that Ukrainian agents have engaged in “terror” tactics on the disputed Crimean peninsula may be a ploy by Russia to justify an escalation of the military conflict in its former Soviet ally, officials in Kiev said.
President Vladimir Putin vowed in Moscow to respond with “very serious” measures after his Federal Security Service, of FSB, the main successor of the Soviet-era KGB, said Wednesday that Ukrainian intelligence officers killed two Russian servicemen during a covert operation on the Black Sea territory that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. The accusation triggered a spike in the yields of Ukrainian bonds.
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Source: National Post
