Russia files lawsuit against Ukrainian military leadership
The Investigative Committee from the Russian Federation stated that it has filed a lawsuit against the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Stepan Poltorak, and against other representatives of the Ukrainian military leadership. According to information released on the Russian Agency website, the case concerns the investigation of the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare by Ukrainian security agencies in southeastern Ukraine.
“The Investigative Committee has received sufficient data that illegal activities against the civilian population occurred at the order of top military leadership from Ukraine: the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, the Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Viktor Muzhenko, the former commander of the Ground Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anatoly Pushnyakov, the acting commander of the Ground Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergiy Popko, and the National Guard commander, Yuriy Allerov,” the Investigative Committee statement said.
Russian investigators stated that the Ukrainian side has repeatedly violated the Minsk Agreements, allegedly shelling non-military targets in the Donbas. The Russian Investigative Committee also stated that they are actively collecting evidence but don’t provide details about the basis on which they carry out investigative actions in the territory of the other country. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense hasn’t yet commented on the statements made by the Russian Investigative Committee.
The prosecutor general of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, has put 20 Russian officials involved in the commission of crimes against Ukraine on a wanted list. The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine allegedly published records of telephone calls between Sergey Glazyev, the advisor to the president of Russia and one of the individuals on the PGO’s list, and Konstantin Zatulin, the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma for the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relations with Russian Nationals Abroad, in which they discuss the destabilization of the situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.