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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said that the leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko was questioned as part of an investigation into crimes against national security.

“The SBU continues to hold an investigation into the most notorious crimes against national security in which representatives of the Communist Party and their accomplices were involved or are involved in. As a part of this investigation, Communist leader Petro Symonenko has been interrogated,” SBU spokesperson Olena Hitlianska told journalists in Kyiv on April 6.

She refused to disclose the details of the interrogation, adding that the SBU has many questions for Symonenko.

As reported, the SBU is investigating the circumstances of Symonenko’s attendance of a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, and his public statements and comments containing appeals for crimes to be committed against the national security of Ukraine. The SBU summoned him for questioning on April 2.