Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy believes that at the Kyiv’s Sviatoshynsky District Court session on Nov. 25, during which the ousted Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovych will be questioned via video conference from Rostov-On-Don, will be also notified officially of charges against him.
I think the main thing the Ukrainian investigators should make is to read the charges to Yanukovych, so they can continue with the case,” Parubiy told journalists in Kyiv on Nov.24.
Parubiy is confident that Yanukovych is responsible for the tragedy during the EuroMaidan Revolution, the Russian occupation of Crimea and the war in Donbas.
“I think that the responsibility about the events that took place on Maidan and events which followed it lies on Yanukovych, who had become a stooge of Putin [Russian president Vladimir Putin] in Ukraine. And I think if we can get in touch, we must demand his [Yanukovych’s] return to Ukraine and read him the charges in accordance with the Ukrainian Criminal Code,” Parubiy said.
As reported, Kyiv’s Sviatoshynsky district court ruled on Nov. 25 to question Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and former Ukrainian Interior Troops Commander Stanislav Shuliak via video link as witnesses in a case against five former members of the Berkut special task force accused of murdering 48 activists on Maidan in 2014.
Yanukovych’s lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk urged the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine to provide high quality and reliable video link between Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv and the Rostov Regional Court of the Russian Federation to conduct the interrogation. He also said that a test video link between the courts in Rostov and Kyiv had been successfully checked.
