Kyiv Court of Appeal has rejected the request by Ukrainian MP Nadiia Savchenko and her lawyers to recuse prosecutor of Ukraine’s Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office Oleksandr Klymovych at a hearing of the appeal against the ruling of the Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv that chose the measure of restraint for Savchenko in the form of custody.
According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, the court said that the petition by Savchenko was not based on the requirements of the law and the materials of criminal proceedings.
Earlier, at a meeting of Kyiv Court of Appeal, Savchenko stated that Klymovych was biased.
“At the previous meeting, this prosecutor said that servicemen of the Russian Federation who came to Ukraine to commit crimes are better than Ukrainian soldiers,” she said.
Savchenko also added that the prosecutor, violating the principle of the presumption of innocence, accuses her of committing a crime, which has not yet been proven by the court, and that he feels personal dislike towards her.
Savchenko’s lawyers supported her position and also noted that a complaint would be lodged against this prosecutor at the disciplinary commission of the prosecutor’s office.
Klymovych called this petition unjustified. According to him, he said that Russian servicemen Evgeniy Erofeyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who came to commit crimes on Ukrainian territory, were better than those Ukrainian citizens who intended to commit a crime on their own territory, against their country.
