Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrytsak has said that leader of “Ukrainian Choice – People’s Right” movement Viktor Medvedchuk as a representative of Ukraine in the subgroup for humanitarian issues of the Trilateral Contact Group visits Moscow and travels there by air.
“As for Medvedchuk, he is a member of the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group, in particular, the humanitarian subgroup. He is authorized by the leadership of the state to participate in the negotiation process. He really flies to Moscow now and then,” Hrytsak said at a joint briefing with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko on Nov. 18 in Kyiv.
He said that Medvedchuk uses his own plane that is registered not in Ukraine.
On Nov. 18, the Skhemy TV program said that direct air communication between Ukraine and Russia is banned, while the two states make an exception for Medvedchuk.
The Skhemy journalists recorded that Medvedchuk flew to Moscow three times.
The journalists said that all other private planes landed at the Gomel airport (Belarus) to fly to Moscow and other Russian cities.
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said to the Skhemy journalists that the ban to fly between Ukraine and Russia applies to private planes too.
The journalists said that Falcon 900 aircraft used by Medvedchuk is registered on Aruba Island (the Netherlands).
The press service of “Ukrainian Choice – People’s Right” movement told the Skhemy journalists that Medvedchuk receives permits from Ukrainian and Russian authorities to directly fly to Russia to hold official negotiations.
