SBU: Surkov visited Donetsk the other day

On February 16, the assistant to the President of Russia, Vladislav Surkov, visited Donetsk captured by pro -Russian militants. According to Ukrainian Pravda, this statement was made by the head of the apparatus of the head of the SBU, Alexander Tkachuk. “Russia very carefully hid preparations for this visit,” the official noted.

One of the issues discussed during the visit was, according to Tkachuk’s information, preparations for the “elections” in the DPR, appointed on February 21 . “According to the results of the Surkov meetings, he made a number of decisions that will concern personnel permutations and certain political issues on the territory of the DPR,” the SBU official also said. “The so -called Foreign Minister (Alexander) Kofman, the head of the administration (head of the DPR Maxim) Leshchenko and the acting head of the city Debaltsevo (Alexey Granovsky. - Ed.)”

January 19-20, added Tkachuk, Surkov made a similar trip to the captured areas of the Lugansk region of Ukraine.

“Such visits of a person close to the President of the Russian Federation once again prove how tightly Russia and the Kremlin control what is happening in the occupied territory of Donbass,” the special services official concluded. “In fact, the leadership of puppet“ republics ”is under the control of the Russian Federation.”

In February 2015, the then director of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko said that Surkov led the executions of the Euromaidanists in the last days of the Revolution of Dignity. Following the same statement was made by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko .

In October 2015, Nalvaichenko said that Surkov came to Ukraine on February 20-21, 2014 under the name of Aslanbek Dudaev and six FSB generals arrived in the country. The ex-head of the SBU noticed that in May 2015, the special service reported to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine with an official letter of all about all this. “On the second page of the letter it is written in which cases and sniper rifles of which type were brought up,” he emphasized.

However, the head of the special investigation department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Sergey Gorbatyuk, the data of Nalyvaichenko denied. The official said that Surkov, together with the FSB generals, really visited Ukraine on February 20, 2014, but this happened after the clashes of the Euromaidanians with the security forces of the then President Viktor Yanukovych.

In November 2015, the prosecutor's office of the Odessa region announced the case against the First Deputy Surkov - Inal Ardzinba . The official is put on the international wanted list. He is charged with the work carried out in January-April 2015 for the "illegal proclamation of the sovereign state education" Bessarabia "in the territory of the south-west of Odessa, as well as involvement in the activities of the DPR.