On June 23, the Eighth Court of Appeal in Lviv banned the activities of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) Natalia Vitrenko.
The SBU informed the Movement HONESTLY about this. This is the 12th pro-Russian party banned by the court.
The pro-Russian political project of the Progressive Socialists is invariably led by Natalia Vitrenko. The PSPU is the only party that filed a counterclaim and dragged out the court.
Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska said earlier that 16 trials are ongoing in court to ban political parties in Ukraine.
On May 14, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law banning pro-Russian political parties. The law expands the list of grounds for banning a political party through a court. Among the grounds, in particular, are justification, recognition as lawful, denial of armed aggression against Ukraine, including by presenting Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine as an internal conflict or civil war.
Vitrenko is a Ukrainian politician, Doctor of Economics, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine. Vitrenko’s political views and program have an expressive anti-Western and pro-Russian orientation. She opposes Ukraine’s accession to NATO and integration with the European Union, supporting the idea of an interstate union with Russia and Belarus. According to his own statements, he is a supporter of socialism and Soviet power. Supports the Putin regime and Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Due to his sometimes extraordinary behavior, Vitrenko is compared to the right-wing Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Natalia Vitrenko Bloc did not overcome the three percent barrier and is not represented in the Ukrainian Parliament.
On November 6, 2019, in Moscow, where she has been living since 2014, Vitrenko said that “Nazism has raised its head in Ukraine,” and “collaborators, servants of Hitler, they are making revenge.”
Source: Racurs
