Yuriy Ivakin, interior minister of the self-proclaimed 'Luhansk People's Republic', intends to resume the work of the police in the nearest future, despite the threats made to his family.
“I keep getting threats. They are saying they have three bullets
ready. My family is receiving threats, too,” he told a press conference
on May 21y.
Ivakin said, addressing Anatoliy Naumenko, the head of the Ukrainian
police in the region: “Don’t intimidate me. I am not afraid. I only want
order, I want people to be able to live calmly in the Luhansk People’s
Republic.”
“I have come to get the police ready to fulfill their functions and fight crime,” Ivakin said.
Ivakin said he has information on plans to change the region’s
administration. “Naumenko told people to tell me that he will ride into
the interior affairs department on a white horse on Friday. Let’s see,”
Ivakin said.
Ivakin said he currently does not control the police of the northern
district of the Luhansk region. “The police should fulfill their duties
by honestly helping people at any moment,” Ivakin said in his address to
the district’s police.
Yuriy Ivakin is a pensioner. He became a minister of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic on May 18.
