The only deputy of the Russian State Duma who voted against the accession of Crimea to Russia,  Ilya Ponomarev, has declared that there are Russian saboteurs present in Ukraine.  The deputy wrote about this after visiting Ukraine, in his blog in “Echo Moskvy”.

“There is no large-scale intervention, but there are special forces (of the Main Intelligence Directorate?) and subversive groups that are carrying out the task of directing and organizing the forces of the so-called ‘self-defence’,” said Ilya Ponomarev.