Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine have conducted investigative actions (searches) at the leaders of the Communist Party in Kyiv and Kyiv region, during which the campaign materials with banned symbols of the communist totalitarian regime have been found.
“The investigation received information about involvement in the anti-state activities of representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Special Service employees conducted a number of sanctioned searches in Kyiv and the region, in particular at the residence of the leaders of the Communist Party,” the SBU press center said on May 8.
During the searches, law enforcement officers found propaganda materials with the banned symbolism of the communist totalitarian regime planned on the order of Russian curators on May 9 with the aim of destabilizing the socio-political situation in Ukraine and provoking power clashes between activists of socio-political groups.
Investigators are conducting the pre-trial investigation into the criminal case launched into the activity seeking to seize the power and state treason, the SBU said.
Meanwhile, searches were undertaken at the homes of Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko and Communist Youth League leader Mikhailo Kononovich, Ukrainian People’s Deputy (the faction of Oleh Liashko-led Radical Party) Ihor Mosiychuk said. “Searches are underway at the homes of leader of the forbidden Ukrainian Communist Party Petro Symonenko and Mikhailo Kononovich, the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Youth League also banned [in that country],” the MP wrote on Facebook.
Law enforcement officers are conducting searches in the Kyiv office of the party, searches have earlier been undertaken at the homes of Symonenko and Kononovich, the Ukrainian Communist Party said in a statement on its site later.
The Communist Party also claimed that “propagandistic materials showed with the banned symbols of the Communist totalitarian regime” have nothing in common with that party.
The Ukrainian Communist Party’s activity has been banned in the country since 2015.
