The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has launched criminal proceedings against Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, Zorian Shkiriak, has said.
“The Main Investigation Department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry
has opened criminal proceedings against Russian citizens Gennady
Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky,” he told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday, July 25.
Shkiriak said that these individuals were charged with “financing
actions aimed at changing the boundaries of the territory and the state
border of Ukraine.”
The minister’s adviser promised to give more detailed information later on Friday, July 25.
On July 22, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the
Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Main Investigation Department had opened
criminal cases against Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and
businessman Konstantin Malofeyev based on the article dealing with “the
creation of illegal militarized or armed groups” and “being an
accomplice in a crime.”
