Moscow - The Kremlin will not respond to remarks made by Ukrainian officials alleging that the Russian authorities have granted Russian citizenship to Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka.
‘We will not respond to the escapades of the advisor to the interior minister of Ukraine,’ the Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
For his part, a spokesperson for the Russian Federal Migration Service told Interfax on Friday that he also would not comment on the Ukrainian representative’s claims.
The Ukrainian interior minister’s advisor, Anton Heraschenko, said earlier he had information that Yanukovych, Azarov, Pshonka and their families had allegedly received Russian citizenship under a classified decree signed by the president of Russia.
