“The indictment against Dmytro Tabachnyk, former adviser to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine during Yanukovych’s time, was sent to the court: he is charged with treason, propaganda of war and justification of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
The indictment against Dmytro Tabachnyk, former adviser to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine during Yanukovych’s time, was sent to the court: he is charged with treason, propaganda of war and justification of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General, interlocutor of “Ukrainian Pravda” in law enforcement agencies
Details: The message did not mention the name of the person involved, but according to the UP, it is about a 59-year-old man Rostislav Ishchenko.
A special pre-trial investigation in absentia in the criminal proceedings against him was carried out by the State Bureau of Investigation.
The investigation established that the ex-government official, who from 2011 to 2014 worked in various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Verkhovna Rada, was involved by representatives of Russia in providing assistance in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine no later than 2011.
He publicly spoke and spread the narratives of Russian propaganda, which since 2013 the top military-political leadership of the Russian Federation used to put pressure on representatives of the state authorities in Ukraine in order to change its external vector of development and abandon the course of European integration. And from 2014 to the present time – to justify the annexation and occupation of part of the Ukrainian territories, as well as the armed aggression of the Russian Federation and its controlled armed formations against Ukraine.
The accused coordinated his actions with representatives of the Russian authorities, in particular, with the deputy head of one of the departments of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation (according to the UP, it is about Igor Maslov). Until February 2014, the ex-serviceman systematically visited him in Moscow, where they met in Putin’s administration, and also constantly maintained telephone contact with him. The official of the aggressor state periodically provided the accused with money, which he used to finance his own needs and the activities of legal entities registered on the territory of Ukraine, the founder of which he was.
Also, according to the investigation, Ishchenko coordinated his actions regarding the provision of assistance to the Russian Federation in carrying out subversive activities with an employee of one of the intelligence agencies of Ukraine, the indictment regarding which, according to the events of the commission of high treason, is currently being considered in court (it is about ex-intelligence officer under the pseudonym Andriy Vajra).
At the end of February 2014, the ex-serviceman left for the Russian Federation, where he continued his criminal activities. After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine, the accused systematically spread narratives in which he justified the actions of the occupiers and called on Ukrainian citizens to cooperate with the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
Literally OGP: “The specified crimes were discovered under the operational support of the National Police of Ukraine’s State Security Service during a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the facts of treason committed by citizens of Ukraine – former high-ranking officials and persons involved in them, in the interests of the Russian Federation, with the use of violence by law enforcement officers during mass protests in 2013 -2014, including mass murders of citizens, with the aim of creating in Ukraine socio-political crisis, which further contributed to the implementation of the plans of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the annexation of Ukrainian territories”.