Having captured Ataman Yurchenko, the SBU immediately opened several cases against him
Simferopol, April 24 (Navigator, Evgeniy Andreev) - The SBU, having captured deputy of the Bakhchisarai City Council Sergei Yurchenko on the border of Crimea and Ukraine on his way to his parents in the Zaporozhye region, immediately opened several criminal cases against him.
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According to the Service’s press center, the day before in Chongar Yurchenko was detained “as part of an anti-terrorist operation.”
“In February – March 2014, in order to carry out tasks and coordinate representatives of Russian intelligence, using the capabilities of public structures under his control, “Yu” organized and took direct part in separatist events on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, incl. in forceful actions to seize Ukrainian military units, government bodies and administration of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Russian sabotage groups,” the message says.
According to the SBU, in April, Yurchenko coordinated the participation of representatives of pro-Russian Cossack organizations in mass riots in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which were accompanied by pogroms and resistance to government officials using weapons, as well as the seizure of government buildings, in particular the Regional State Administration, internal affairs departments and the SBU.
In addition, the department claims that the Crimean ataman, at the direction of the FSB of the Russian Federation, organized the dispatch of groups of Cossacks from the territory of Crimea “to participate in extremist and separatist events in the Donbass” and “spread anti-Ukrainian sentiments in the territories of Zaporozhye, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa regions.”
Criminal proceedings have been initiated against Sergei Yurchenko under Articles 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), 111 (high treason) and Part 1 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code (mass riots).
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