PGO: Six Russians in custody in Ukraine – for terrorism

 

Six citizens of the Russian Federation are currently in custody in Ukraine for committing terrorist acts. Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios told a briefing at Ukrinform.

“Currently, nearly 450 people were exposed, perpetrators of the said crimes, to whom the suspicion was announced. Regarding 139 people, detention as a preventive measure was chosen for them by the courts, including with respect to six citizens of the Russian Federation,” he said.

In particular, according to Matios, the Prosecutor General’s Office has provided the pre-trial investigation and procedural guidance in more than 1,300 criminal proceedings on the facts of committing acts of terrorism and other serious and heinous crimes, especially, the attacks on the integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, riots, seizure and blocking of government establishments, sabotage and illegal imprisonment.

Deputy Prosecutor General also stressed that the police do not leave unattended a single fact of violations of the law during the ATO in eastern Ukraine.

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Ukraine: Defending the Homeland

Last week the Ukrainian government announced the formation of the National Guard, after it was revealed that the army only had 6,000 combat ready troops compared to Russia’s 200,000. The volunteer force will bolster the under-strength military and protect Ukraine’s borders after Crimea having been effectively annexed and Russian forces now building up along Ukraine’s eastern border.

The first to answer the call were the self defense groups who fought on the barricades during last month’s revolution. So we headed down to the Maidan to hopefully tag along with them to the training grounds outside of Kiev for their induction day.

“There are a lot of smart people in our country, but there also are certain discrepancies in so-called Ukrainian mentality, which do not depend on the will of the country’s top leadership, since most of the ordinary people in fact do not want, can not and are not capable of doing anything. In everyday life people very often do things forbidden by faith, morality and law. Neither the state nor its leadership has any control over it. Ukraine is destined to reach the bifurcation point and pass the point of catharsis after which we will all realize that there is no other way but to roll up our sleeves, start working and, most importantly, accomplish something practical, not in word but in deed.”

Anatolii Matios,
Theses of the speech delivered at the round table meeting “Problems in business related to development, manufacturing and trading of special technical devices”
Kyiv, May 29th, 2012