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Repelled punishment
In Kyiv, supporters of the leader of the Party of New Forces, the ex-governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili repelled him from the security forces who tried to detain politics. This was reported by UNIAN.
In the morning, employees of the Prosecutor General and Security Service of Ukraine came to the Saakashvili apartment with a search. The politician climbed to the roof of the house and turned to the assembled journalists and his supporters. "They want to kidnap me because I defended the Ukrainian people. They wanted to kidnap me unnoticed, but they did not succeed," Saakashvili said. He also urged Kiev residents to prevent lawlessness, and the security forces did not fulfill the “criminal orders”. Then the security forces took Saakashvili from the roof.
Saakashvili was put in a car. However, his supporters blocked the car on Trekhniteli Street. More than three thousand people gathered there.
Around 12:20 (13:20 Moscow time), after the National Guard’s unsuccessful attempt to push the protesters, part of the activists began to build barricades. To do this, they broke a wooden fence in the park on Vladimir Gorka. In the course of clashes with the police, several activists were injured. At least five supporters of Saakashvili were detained.
At about 13:35 (14:35 Moscow time), protesters defeated the windows in the SBU minibus, where Saakashvili was located and pulled out politics out of the car. Saakashvili along with supporters went towards Independence Square. Then Saakashvili supporters began the rally of the Verkhovna Rada. According to Ukrainian Pravda, at 17:00 (18:00 Moscow time) there are about 500 people on the square. About 10 buses of the National Guard stand nearby, but the security forces do not interfere with activists.
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Meanwhile, at a briefing, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko said that he had a record of the telephone conversation of the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and Sergey Kurchenko, a fugitive ally of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Saakashvili and Kurchenko allegedly agreed on cooperation.
On Monday, the security forces arrested the head of the Kyiv regional branch of the "Movement of the New Forces" of Severion Dangadze. The prosecutor's office claims that he ", in agreement with the Saakashvili himself, turned through the proxy to Kurchenko, which is hiding from law enforcement agencies in Moscow, with a proposal to financing Saakashvili's activities in exchange for the interests of members of the criminal group."
Lutsenko said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies suspect Saakashvili detainee on Tuesday under article 256 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (assistance to participants in criminal organizations). This, according to the prosecutor general, gives the right to petition for a round -the -clock house arrest of a politician.
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow does not prefer any of the parties to the conflict. "We are observing with interest as a whole behind the picture of what is happening. Of course, this is the headache of Ukraine. You won’t wish this to the enemy, although we do not consider, of course, the Ukrainian people are an enemy," Peskov said.
In July, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko deprived Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship . At this time, the politician was outside Ukraine. On September 10, Saakashvili returned to the country from Poland surrounded by his supporters, who actually broke through the border .
Since October, supporters of Saakashvili have been holding rallies with a demand for the resignation of Poroshenko. On the last of them, which took place on December 3, Saakashvili called on to gather next weekend on Independence Square in Kyiv, if the authorities this week does not ensure the adoption of laws on the impeachment of the president in the Verkhovna Rada and the creation of an anti -corruption court.