Kremlin accuses Ukrainian Right Sector of preparing murders of 50 Russian officials
Russia has opened criminal proceedings against the members of the far-right Ukrainian nationalist political organization, Right Sector accusing them of “serious crimes”, reported the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee.
The Investigative Committee filed charges against Right Sector after the publication of a document named “the verdict of the Central National Court of the Right Sector”. According to the Investigative Committee, the members of the subdivision of Right Sector, called the Central National Court of the Right Sector, adopted this document after Maidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko was convicted in Simferopol in May 2015.
Russia stated that the document was drawn up “at the request of [Ukrainian military commander and newly appointed Ukrainian Member of Parliament Dmytro] Yarosh.”
“In this document, the aforementioned persons talk about the death penalty and, in fact, issued instructions to all members of the illegal organization, the Right Sector, to commit murders, “at the appropriate time and using any suitable means”, of 50 Russian state, judicial and law enforcement officials who took part in the investigation of the criminal case and sentencing of Kostenko, “ the Russian authorities claim.
Russian investigators charge the authors of the document with “conspiring to commit murders and assassination attempts on government officials”. Russia previously sentenced in absentia ex-leader of the Right Sector Dmytro Yarosh, Right Sector party leader Andriy Tarasenko, commander of the Right Sector volunteer corps Andriy Stempytsky.