Putin's personal bodyguard, involved in the escape of former President Viktor Yanukovici from Ukraine to Russia, accuses the Kiev Prosecutor's Office
Former Ukrainian President Victor Ianukovici, in Moscow, Russia, on March 2, 2018. Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP / Profimedia
Serghei Morozov, the personal bodyguard of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the former commander of the Southern Military District of the Russian Army, Aleksander Galkin, were involved in the illegal crossing by former Ukrainian president Viktor Janukovici in 2014, prosecutor Denis Ivanov Ukrinform.
Previously during the day, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine announced that Ianukovici was sentenced, in accordance, to 15 years in prison for “inciting desert and organizing the illegal crossing of the border”.
Former Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovici, sentenced to 15 years in prison. “A drawing of the former senior officials who supported the Russian aggression”
This is the second conviction that Yanukovici received from an Ukrainian court. In 2019, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for high treason and complicity in the war against Ukraine, notes The Kyiv Independent.
Ianukovici, a former pro -Russian leader of Ukraine, was removed from power following the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014 and subsequently fled to Russia.
According to the Ukrainian prosecutor, during the open process for the illegal crossing, the routes and data of Ianukovici's travels were established, as well as the persons who facilitated him.
“All these events took place with the support of the special services of the Russian Federation and the Russian armed forces. The Federal Security Service (FSB, no), the South Military District and the Russian Fleet of the Black Sea were involved,” Ivanov told Ukrinform.
“One of the phones used by Yanukovici during his constant travel was directly related to Putin's bodyguard,” the prosecutor added.
The decisive direct proof in this case was the testimony of some employees of the Ukraine State Protection Department who refused Yanukovici's offer to leave Ukraine's territory with him and to betray his military oath, according to Ivanov.
Another proof in this case was the information provided by a telecommunications operator regarding the registration of the numbers used by Yanukovici and his security agents while traveling on the territory of Ukraine and Russia, in the operator's basic stations.
January, 73 years old, remains one of the most controversial political figures in Ukraine. He lost the vote following the 2004 orange revolution, after the discovery of the electoral fraud in favor of Yanukovici, writes the quoted publication. However, he returned and won the presidency in 2010.
Ianukovici's presidency approached Ukraine to Russia. In November 2013, his refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union triggered the massive protests known as the Euromaidan Revolution.
After the death of almost 100 protesters following the intervention of the Security forces in February 2014, Yanukovici fled Ukraine and asked for asylum in Russia. Ukrainian prosecutors believe that the former president is currently in the village of Barvikha, in the Moscow region.
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