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RFE/RL: Medvedchuk to remain under house arrest

Published Oct. 13, 2021 at 2:24 am

Viktor Medvedchuk, a lawmaker and one of the leaders of the pro-Kremlin party Opposition Platform For Life (C), leaves the Prosecutor General's Office in Kyiv on May 12. The day before, Medvedchuk was charged with high treason. He denies all accusations.

A Ukrainian court on October 12 ordered pro-Russian lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk to remain under house arrest until December after prosecutors broadened their criminal investigation into his activities. Medvedchuk, who has been held under house arrest since May, was initially targeted with allegations of treason in a case that has added to tensions between Moscow and Kyiv.