Former communist leader Symonenko received suspicion

Petr Simonenko is engaged in a public campaign in support of Moscow’s aggressive policy, the SBU said.

Law enforcement officials have reported suspicion of former people’s representative and leader of the outlawed Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro Symonenko, who supported Russia’s armed invasion. This was reported by the SBU on Friday, August 11.

It was established that during the occupation of the Kyiv region, he turned to the top military-political leadership of Russia about his “departure”.

“In order to get Simonenko and his family out of the village of Berezovka, Makarov district, which was captured at that time, the Kremlin ordered to send a detachment of Russian special forces there. food,” the statement said.

In the period from March 4 to March 8, 2022, the invaders “delivered” Simonenko and his relatives to Belarus. From there he moved to Russia, where he was appointed deputy chairman of the “Central Committee of the International Communist Association” Union of Communist Party – the Communist Party of the Soviet Union “.

“This is a completely pro-Kremlin organization, controlled by the Russian Communist Party, headed by its leader, State Duma deputy Gennady Zyuganov. It was on his instructions that Simonenko launched a public campaign in support of the aggressive Moscow’s policy,” the SBU said. .

So, in October 2022, Symonenko took part in the so-called “22nd” International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties”, held in the city of Havana in Cuba. In his speech, he tried to legitimize the seizure of part of the territory of Ukraine and the activities of terrorist organizations” L /DNR”.

In addition, on April 21-22, 2023, the former people’s representative took part in the congress of the “anti-fascist forum” in Minsk. There, he spoke in favor of continuing the war against Ukraine and justified the Kremlin’s narratives about Russia’s use of tactical nuclear weapons.

Based on the collected evidence, Symonenko was charged with suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• public call to forcibly change or overthrow the constitutional order or usurp state power using the media (part 3 of article 109).

• justification, recognition of legitimacy, rejection of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which began in 2014, including the presentation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as an internal civil conflict using the media (part 3 of article 436- 2).

Now the issue of additional qualification of the criminal actions of Petro Symonenko has been resolved. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

It was previously known that four henchmen of the former People’s Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk received prison terms. They are preparing a violent seizure of power in Ukraine.

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