Russia initiates criminal case against Ukraine’s military prosecutor
The Russian Investigative Committee has filed a criminal case against Vadim Primachok, deputy head of Ukraine’s Main Military Procuratorate, on charges of convicting an innocent person. Other members of Ukraine’s military procuratorate also feature in the case, as announced by the Investigative Committee’s press center.
According to the Russian investigation, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have initiated criminal proceedings which view the treaty on the Annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia as an activity deliberately intended to change the borders of Ukraine.
As part of these proceedings, Primachok and other procuratorate staff convicted 19 judges from Russia’s Constitutional Court in connection with the ruling made by them which recognizes the annexation treaty as complying with Russia’s constitution.
The Russian Investigative Committee is currently conducting an investigation in order to acquire and reinforce its evidence for the case. The Ukrainian law enforcement officials are accused according to Section 2 Article 299 of Russia’s Criminal Code - “prosecution of an innocent person, connected to accusing the person of committing a particularly severe crime”.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has placed Valery Zorkin, head of Russia’s Constitutional Court, and 13 other Russian judges on its wanted list, on charges of infringing the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The internationally recognized Ukrainian territory of Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in March of 2014 in the wake of the Ukrainian revolution. The Kremlin has faced international
condemnation for its annexation of the Peninsula, leading many western countries to impose economic sanctions against Russia. In the United Nations, only Afghanistan, North Korea, Cuba,
Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Syria recognize Crimea as a legitimate federal subject of Russia.