The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has said its criminal investigation department wants to interrogate several Russian politicians on suspicion of co- financing and co-organizing anti-government militia forces in eastern Ukraine.
“A message has been sent to the ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov, about summoning Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Mironov, Sergei Shoigu and Konstantin Malofeyev for notifying them about their suspect status and interrogating them as suspects,” the ministry said in a statement.
It said the five men were suspected of offenses qualified as “leadership of illegal militarized or armed units, financing of them, supplying of them with weapons, ammunition, explosives, or military equipment, and participation via such units in attacks on enterprises, institutions, organizations, or individuals that have led to human fatalities or have had other grave consequences.”
Meanwhile, last month Moscow’s Basmanny Court issued an international arrest warrant for Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
Avakov and Ihor Kolomoisky, governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, whom Russia has also put on its international wanted list, are accused of murder, use of prohibited means of warfare, o
