The head of Zelensky’s office will be interrogated in the case of “PMCs fighters”

Nand the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, may also be called for questioning. The country is looking for those responsible for the failure of the operation to detain 33 “PMCs” in the summer of 2020

The head of Zelensky's office will be interrogated in the case of

Vladimir Zelensky (right) and Andrey Ermak (left)

The State Bureau of Investigation (GBR) of Ukraine will summon the head of the office of the President Andrei Ermak for questioning in the case of the disruption of the operation to detain 33 Russians, acting Director of the GBR Alexey Sukhachev said on the air of the TV channel “1+1”.

“We will summon Mr. Ermak for questioning within a few days. Why aren’t we doing this today? Because we expect certain information from our colleagues from law enforcement agencies in the coming days,” he said.

However, so far the investigation has no evidence that Ermak is guilty of disrupting the operation, Sukhachev added.

When asked if it is possible that the President of Ukraine will be interrogated in the case, the acting head of the GBR noted that the investigator has the right to interrogate any person regardless of the official, “if there is a need,” Vladimir Zelensky will also be called for questioning.

The fact that Ermak could disrupt the operation, in mid-November, said the former head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vasily Burba. According to him, on July 23, 2020, Ermak instructed to postpone the operation. “I got an answer that this is the president’s team. There was no written instruction,” Burba said (quoted by Interfax-Ukraine).

In his opinion, then the operation could not be postponed and, perhaps, it was because of this decision that it was failed. Among the reasons for the failure, he called the existence of a mole among officials who allegedly works for Russia, poor training and good work of the counterintelligence of Belarus.

Adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine and press secretary of the Kiev delegation in the contact group on Donbass Alexey Arestovich, in turn, suggested that the blame for the failure of the operation may lie with Burba himself. According to Arestovich, Burba repeatedly postponed the operation, and made the decision on the active phase without the consent of the president.

The Russians, whom the Belarusian KGB called the Wagner PMCs fighters, were detained near Minsk on July 29. Initially, they were suspected of preparing a terrorist attack and mass riots before the presidential election. However, Minsk later dropped all charges against the detainees and handed them over to Moscow, despite Ukraine’s request for extradition.

Ukraine denied its involvement in the detention of the Russians, but later confirmed that it had collected evidence on them. In June 2021, Zelensky said that other states were planning the operation, and Ukraine was trying to “drag” into it.

As CNN reported, during the operation, Kiev received funding and technical assistance from Washington. In addition, the CIA advised the Ukrainian side on organizing an operation against “Russian mercenaries”. Zelensky’s office called the CNN investigation a fake.

The FSB, on the contrary, confirmed the information to CNN and reported that they regard the incident with the detention of 33 Russians as an act of state terrorism prepared by the special services of Ukraine. According to the representative of the department, the Ukrainian special services under the leadership of the CIA specifically lured Russians to a neighboring country in order to quarrel between Russia and Belarus.

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