MOSCOW. Sept 7 (Interfax) - A video released by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday features clips of the interrogation of defendants in a case on the sabotage of a Crimean gas pipeline, and Nariman Dzhelyalov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars (branded an extremist organization and banned in Russia), has been arrested in connection with the case.
The video shows two defendants giving confessions.
"They told us they wanted to blow up the gas pipeline," one of the defendants says in the video. He also told FSB officers how the explosives were planted and camouflaged.
The second defendant confirmed his involvement in the act of sabotage.
According to the detainees, they received a bomb in Kherson from a man who introduced himself as Said. Another man, who introduced himself as Sergei, explained how to use the explosives and said they were powerful enough to rupture the pipeline.
The detainees said they were told to delete all conversations and information concerning the crime once the act of sabotage was committed.
The FSB said earlier on Tuesday that Dzhelyalov and some other persons had been detained in connection with a case on blowing up a gas pipeline in Perevalnoye, Crimea.
The security service said that the act of sabotage was plotted with involvement from Ukrainian intelligence.