The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has launched a criminal case on possible high treason by members of Ukraine’s delegation to the negotiation process in Minsk, member of the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Viatrovych said on his Facebook page on Monday.
“On May 6, 2020, the Main Investigations Department of the SBU registered in the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations a criminal case opened under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on high treason by certain representatives of Ukraine’s delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for the settlement of the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk region,” reads a statement of the SBU posted by the MP.
“Unfortunately, the SBU is embarrassed about naming the ‘certain representatives’ directly, because they mean Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak and second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. An also, unfortunately, the SBU ignored the law right after my appeal and I had to appeal to court,” Viatrovych said.
As reported, on April 23, 2020, the court satisfied Viatrovych’s appeal and obliged the SBU to start an investigation into possible high treason by Yermak and Kuchma.
As reported, during a meeting of the TCG in Minsk on March 11, 2020, in which Yermak, Kuchma and the deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration, Dmitry Kozak, participated, the sides agreed on a prisoner swap, disengagement of forces and equipment, simultaneous opening of checkpoints in Zolote and Schastia, and the establishment of an “Advisory Council,” which was supposed to consist of ten representatives of Ukraine and ten representatives of the certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions with a deciding vote, as well as one representative from each the OSCE, Russia, Germany and France with a consultative vote upon their consent.
