Employees of the Prosecutor's Office in Ukraine's Volyn region have said that they have been subject to pressure and threats on the part of members of the Right Sector radical movement.
In their Feb. 24 address to the country’s recently appointed Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky, Volyn region prosecutors said that “on the territory of the Volyn region persons who call themselves members of the Right Sector are putting pressure on prosecutors and their subordinates and are threatening them and their families.”
“The region’s population is being terrorized by groups of armed people dressed in camouflage and face masks, who are committing crimes such as extortion, the seizure of property, threats of violence and the use of force to make officials adopt different decisions,” according to the message, seen by Interfax on Tuesday.
These unknown persons “brandish firearms, enter the buildings of government institutions demanding the resignation of their heads and threaten to cause bodily harm to prosecutors and their family members and destroy their property,” the message says.
The document, signed by the Volyn region’s acting Prosecutor Volodymyr Trots and his two deputies, also says that “the Prosecutor’s Office is unable to continue to fulfill its duties” in these conditions, complaining of lack of action on the part of regional law enforcement agencies.
