On Monday, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office gave new details regarding the escape of the former Ukrainian leader to Russia. – Employee Fedegrous security service ds. Putin's personal protection,Sergei Pietrowicz Morozowand commander of the Southern Military District Aleksandr Gałkin Wiktorowicz They were involved in the illegal crossing of the state border by the former president of Ukraine Wiktor Yanukovych – Denys Iwanov, deputy head of the Maidan Department of the Prosecutor's Office General of Ukraine, said in a commentary for the Ukrinform agency.
According to Ivanov, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office managed to establish further details about the escape of Yanukovych – including The route and date of the politician movement – as well as people who were to help him in it.
– All these events took place in cooperation with the Russian special services and the armed forces of the Russian Federation – the investigators emphasized. The aforementioned FSB, soldiers of the Southern Military District, as well as Black Sea Fleet.
Yanukovych's escape to Russia. “Putin's bodyguard” helped him
As the prosecutor mentioned, with one of his phones Yanukovych “joined with Putin's personal bodyguard” Department of State Security of Ukrainewho rejected Yanukovych's proposal to leave the territory of the country with him and thus misuse the military oath.
The information from telecommunications operator regarding the phone numbers used by Yanukovych when moving around the territory Ukrainian i Russia.
According to the investigator, the sentence, which was passed in April, laid an end to speculation, how and with Kim Yanukovych He left the territory Ukrainian in 2014. – As established in the investigation and proved in court, he did it illegally, transporting loved ones from his surroundings, and also urging representatives of services on the conditional dismissals to commit desertion – he summed up.
Former president of Ukraine, sentenced to 15 years in prison
At the end of April Podolian District Court in Kiev he recognized Yanukovych guilty of organizing the illegal transfer of people across the state border of Ukraine and incitement to desertion. The politician was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.
The case before the Kiev court took place in a special mode, in the absence of the accused who are hiding from the Ukrainian justice. Yanukovych is currently to be in the village of Barwicha in the Odinców region of the Moscow region he told journalists after the Ivanov sentence was announced.
According to the court, the prosecutor's office proved that on February 23, 2014, the former president of Ukraine – acting in collusion with the former boss President's security services and representatives Russia – illegally crossed the state border of Ukraine by air and organized a metastasis At least 20 people, among others from your close environment.
How did Yanukovych get to Russia? Investigators' findings
The flight took place outside border control point for air traffic. The aforementioned group was supposed to go Three Russian military helicopters from the vicinity of the village of Urzuf (Doniecki region) towards military airport in hersk (Krasnodar country). From its travelers, they flew to the Black Sea Anapsand from there, on board a military transport aircraft made available by representatives of the Russian army, to HWARDIJŚKE Military Airport in the autonomous republic Crimea.
Ukrainian investigators determined that later Yanukovych decided to leave Ukraine, using the Russian army. According to prosecutors, staying in the military unit Black Sea Fleet in the Cossack Gulf region in Sewastopoluthe president – who declared on February 22, 2014 that he did not intend to give up the office – he urged the officers of the State Board of Ukraine (UDO) to protect him desertion and going to Russia. Then Yanukovych, together with some UDO officers, was taken from Crimea by the Russian army by sea.
Ukrainian investigators were convinced that Yanukovych's journey by Ukraine i Russia She was designated and was controlled by Russian services and the army, with direct consent Vladimir Putin.