Former MP Novinsky was informed of suspicion of treason

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation and the Security Service of Ukraine informed the deputy about the suspicion of several convocations from the Party of Regions and the “Opposition Bloc”.

“He is suspected of treason and inciting religious enmity and hatred,” the message states.

The first and last name are not specified in the message, but the detailed details point to Vadym Novinskyi.

“As the investigation established, from the very beginning of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, since 2014, he promoted Russian narratives through interviews in mass media, public speeches, as well as in posts on his own website and in social networks. The deputy tried to create anti-government and pro-Russian sentiments in Ukrainian society, justify Russian aggression, etc.

The pro-Russian deputy followed the instructions of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev), for a long time maintained close communication with him and was under his hierarchical command, that is, he was the so-called “curator” of the Russian Orthodox Church and, in fact, the representative of a religious organization of a foreign state in Ukraine. – inform the State Bureau of Investigation.

In December 2022, the SBU published a list of 10 people who were on the “church list” of NSDC sanctions. Among them, in particular, a cleric of the UOC (MP), ex-deputy Vadym Novinsky and the then vicar of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Pavlo (Lebid).