Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO), a Ukrainian nationalist party, denied an allegation by a senior Russian criminal investigation agency on Monday that some of its members fought on the side of Georgia in the August 2008 Russian-Georgian armed conflict.
“No UNA-UNSO groups or individual members took part in the
Georgian-Russian war,” UNA-UNSO deputy leader Mykola Karpiuk told
Interfax.
Karpiuk said allegations to that effect had repeatedly come from
Russia but that no conclusive evidence had been found to support them.
Russia’s Prosecution Service Investigation Committee said
investigations of the 2008 conflict had proved that regular Ukrainian
military personnel and UNA-UNSO members had fought in the Georgian
ranks.
