Another top official from the time of Viktor Yanukovych was declared suspected of involvement in the conclusion of the “Kharkov agreements” in favor of Russia.
By agreement of the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine was suspected in criminal proceedings on the circumstances of his committing high treason by prior conspiracy by a group of persons (part 2 of article 28, part 1 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation, the ex-minister knew about the threats to the sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability and defense of Ukraine from the explosive activities of Russia.
In April 2010, he agreed without comment on the Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which extended for 25 years the period of stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine – in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
The message does not indicate to whom the suspicion was declared. It is known that since March 11, 2010, the Ministry of Defense was headed by Mikhail Yezhel.
In 2021-22, due to the signing of the Kharkiv agreements, a group of persons were suspected of committing high treason by prior conspiracy against Viktor Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov and the ex-ministers of foreign affairs and justice. According to Yanukovych and Azarov, on the basis of a court permission, investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation are conducting a special pre-trial investigation.
Azarov in October 2021, Azarov was arrested in absentia in a case of treason. But the former Minister of Justice Alexander Lavrynovych and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantin Grishchenko were put on the state and international wanted list.
Who is Yezhel?
Yezhel came to the government of Mykola Azarov, who was an associate of the then President Viktor Yanukovych.
According to Admiral Igor Voronchenko, Yezhel destroyed the structures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which are already practically adapted to the structure of NATO. February 24, 2012 Yezhel was appointed Advisor to the President of Ukraine.
In March 2016, the military prosecutor’s office of the GPU drew up a notice of suspicion “to the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine for improper performance of official duties when agreeing in 2011 on the list of military property of the Armed Forces of Ukraine subject to alienation.”
This decision made it possible for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to unlawfully alienate two Tu-95MS heavy strategic bombers to a business entity, which led to grave consequences in the form of material damage to the state on an especially large scale in the amount of more than 24 million hryvnias.
Since Yezhel was already outside the territory of Ukraine, his search will be carried out by the SBU within the framework of international cooperation. At the end of October 2016, the media reported that Interpol refused to put N. Yezhel on the international wanted list.
On December 22, 2018, the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv granted the prosecutor’s request for permission to detain the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mikhail Yezhel if he crossed the border with Ukraine or on the territory of the country.
Grant permission to detain the accused, a native of Vinnitsa region, Barsky district, with. Sloboda-Yaltushevskaya, a citizen of Ukraine with no criminal record, if he crosses the border with Ukraine and stays on the territory of Ukraine, the court ruling says.
Background
Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the issues of the presence of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine (in the press also the Kharkiv agreements, the Kharkiv pact, the Yanukovych-Medvedev Agreement) is an agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, signed on April 21, 2010 in Kharkiv by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, according to which the term of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol was extended from 2017 to 2042 with an automatic extension of 5 years, if either party does not object, and a rent is established.
As noted in the agreement itself, the duration of the stay of the fleet has been increased in exchange for reducing the cost of Russian gas for Ukraine by applying a discount in the form of the cancellation of customs duties.
Ratified by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the State Duma of the Russian Federation on April 27, 2010.
In Ukraine, the agreements aroused outrage among the opposition, environmentalists, local councils and society. Most analysts regarded it as contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine.
Denounced unilaterally by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on March 31, 2014.
Source: Racurs
