The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said that none of its officers visited the office of the Batkivschyna Party on Friday and the SBU intends to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the incident.
"The SBU states that none of the officers of the Security Service of Ukraine visited the Batkivschyna Party’s office on Turivska Street. Incoherent statements by representatives of the BYT about the alleged attempt to seize the office are not true, and are part of a lame campaigning publicity campaign," the SBU’s press secretary, Maryna Ostapenko, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
She also said that the SBU will need to conduct a full investigation into this incident and asked the journalists to take it under control.
After that, she said, the SBU will demand public apologies from the representatives of the Batkivschyna Party.
As reported, members of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction in parliament said that the Batkivschyna Party’s office on Turivska Street in Kyiv was seized by law enforcement agencies. They said that Alfa special police officers, along with SBU investigators, had been sent to the party’s office.
Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, in turn, said that representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) were trying to enter the party’s office and seize the party’s central server.
