The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained in Kyiv a former head of the Republican Committee of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for fuel, energy, and innovation policy, who collaborated with Russian forces after the peninsula was temporarily occupied in 2014.
The SBU said this in a statement seen by Ukrinform.
Immediately after the occupation of Crimea, he obtained Russian citizenship and offered his services to Russian authorities. He was later appointed by Sergey Aksyonov, the so-called "head of Crimea," to the pseudo-position of "minister of fuel and energy of the Republic of Crimea."
In that role, the suspect assisted the occupation authorities in establishing control over strategically important energy infrastructure on the peninsula.
This included the Simferopol and Sevastopol combined heat and power plants, the Tavriya thermal power plant, a network of solar and wind power stations, gas pipelines and compressor stations, as well as oil depots and terminals in Kerch and Feodosia.
