20 FSB employees of Russian Federation notified of suspicion in Maidan cases
The SBI, in cooperation with the SBU, served suspicion notices of aiding and abetting in the commission of high treason on Yanukovych-era SBU leaders and twenty officers of the Russian Federal Security Service during the Revolution of Dignity.
This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation, Censor.NET reports.
According to the SBI, the suspects include:
- Army General Viktor Zolotov - former head of the Russian Presidential Security Service, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops (currently Director of the Federal Service of the Russian National Guard);
- Colonel General Alexei Sedov - Head of the 2nd Service (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
- Lieutenant General Aleksey Zhalo - Deputy Head of the 2nd Service (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation - Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order;
- Major General Sergei Yegorov - First Deputy Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order of the 2nd Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
- Major General Vladimir Pavlik - First Deputy Head of the Operational Information Department of the 5th Service (Operational Information and International Relations) of the FSB of the Russian Federation;
- Major General Andrey Yatsenko is a former officer of the 2nd Service (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, currently Deputy Head of the FSB Department in Moscow.
The former head of the SBU, his first deputy, the head of the Anti-Terrorist Centre, and the head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the Yanukovych-era Service were also served with treason notices.
It was established that the former SBU officials, on the instructions of their Russian supervisors, incited ethnic and religious hatred and enmity among citizens because of their ideological beliefs.
"By a joint decision of the leadership of the SBU and the FSB of the Russian Federation, a delegation of 20 Russian special service officers visited Ukraine from 13 to 15 December 2013. They assisted the SBU in preparing video materials and publications to create a negative image of Euromaidan participants and representatives of opposition forces.
On the instructions of the SBU leadership, 257 videos with provocative content were prepared and a YouTube channel was created to disseminate them. The SBU officers reported on the placement of these video files to the Russian Federal Security Service by sending them links to the published videos," the SBI said.
It is reported that after the Russian FSB delegation left Ukraine, the then SBU leadership "retroactively" signed documents allegedly inviting them as representatives of special services to the Information Security Commission under the Council of Heads of Security and Special Services of the CIS.
Thus, the investigation established and proved the influence of the Russian special services on the former leadership of the SBU to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine.
