The Prosecutor’s Office announced suspicion in the shootings on the Maidan to FSB employees

This information is reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The Prosecutor’s Office has reported suspicion to the former head of the SSU, Oleksandr Yakimenko, his first deputy, the head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the SSU, Volodymyr Totsky, for committing state treason and violating the equality of citizens (Part 1 of Article 111, Part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Suspicion has also been reported to 20 employees of the Russian Federal Security Service who aided the former leadership of the SSU. Among the suspects are:

• Army General Viktor Zolotov – former head of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops (currently the Director of the Federal National Guard of the Russian Federation);
• Lieutenant General Aleksey Sedov, Chief of the 2nd Department (Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Counterterrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
• Lieutenant General Aleksey Zhalo – Deputy Chief of the 2nd Department (Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Counterterrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order;
• Major General Serhey Yegorov – First Deputy Chief of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order of the 2nd Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
• Major General Vladimir Pavlik – First Deputy Chief of the Department of Operational Information of the 5th Department (Operational Information and International Relations) of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
• Major General Andrey Yatsenko – former employee of the 2nd Department (Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Counterterrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, currently Deputy Chief of the FSB of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Employees of the Russian FSB have been informed of suspicion in committing, by prior conspiracy, the act of state treason and aiding the leadership of the SBU in providing assistance to the Russian Federation in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine, detrimental to its sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability, defense capability, state and information security.

They have also been informed of suspicion in inciting national and religious enmity and hatred, demeaning the national honor and dignity, and offending the feelings of citizens in connection with their ideological beliefs.

As reported by the State Bureau of Investigations, by joint decision of the leadership of the SSU and the FSB of the Russian Federation, a delegation of 20 employees of the Russian special services was present in Ukraine from December 13 to 15, 2013. They assisted SSU employees in preparing video materials and publications to create a negative image of the participants of the “Euromaidan” and representatives of opposition forces.

Later, at the request of the SSU, 257 video recordings were created and distributed, containing discrediting content related to socio-political events in Ukraine.

After the departure of the FSB delegation from Ukraine, the then leadership of the SSU retroactively signed documents supposedly inviting them as representatives of special services within the framework of the Commission on Information Security of the Council of Heads of Security and Special Services of the CIS.

Thus, the investigation has established and proven the influence of the Russian special services on the former leadership of the SSU with the aim of conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.

It is worth noting that the employees of the State Bureau of Investigations have completed the pre-trial investigation regarding six former members of the Special Purpose Regiment “Berkut,” who were directly involved in the mass shooting of protesters on February 20, 2014, on Institutskaya Street in Kyiv.

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