05 June 2018, 10:30
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy states Ukraine will never recognize the verdict of a Moscow court on the Ukrinform’s journalist Roman Sushchenko
Opening the morning plenary session of the Parliament, the Chairman A. Parubiy declared that Ukraine would never recognize the verdict of a Moscow court on the Ukrinform’s journalist Roman Sushchenko.
According to him, yesterday the Moscow City Court sentenced the journalist to 12 years in a high security prison.
"On behalf of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, I declare that Ukraine will never recognize this vicious verdict! We condemn this trial and its sham sentence", he stressed.
A.Parubiy underlined that the Russian Federation had been and was an international terrorist: "By order of the criminal Putin, Russian special services capture our citizens trying by so doing to blackmail Ukraine".
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada urged allies of Ukraine - all countries of the free world and international organizations - to condemn the pseudo-verdict to journalist Roman Sushchenko and demand that Russia release all Ukrainian citizens - political prisoners of Russia.
He also warned Ukrainians from traveling to Putin's Russia - "because there is a real danger of being captured by Russian terrorists".
"Do not increase Putin’s exchange fund - do not go to Russia," said A.Parubiy.