There is bemused indignation among relatives of the Kremlin’s many Ukrainian political prisoners at police reports that two Russians working for the FSB and believed to have been planning to commit grave crimes in Ukraine have merely been deported from the country. Ukraine is certainly correct in spurning Moscow’s methods of fabricating criminal charges against Ukrainians either for propaganda purposes, or to use them as hostages for securing concessions from Kyiv. It is considerably harder to understand why, if the reports are correct, Kyiv would merely turf suspected criminals, working for the aggressor state, from its territory.
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A view of a ruby star atop one of the Kremlin's towers in downtown Moscow on Dec. 9, 2019.
