The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained Stanislav Yezhov, Deputy Head of Protocol, Prime Minister of Ukraine, who, according to the department, was recruited by Russian special services.
Yezhov is suspected under the criminal article "high treason". According to the SBU, he “on the instructions of Russian curators, collected information on the activities of government structures with the help of special equipment.”
The SBU did not give the name of the detainee. The representative of the government in the Verkhovna Rada, Vadim Denisenko, told TV channel 112 that this was Stanislav Yezhov. According to him, Yezhov was an assistant to Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman.
reportedly He accompanied Groisman "at all international meetings and on all trips". According to Ukrainian News , Yezhov was in charge of translating meetings with foreign delegations and sometimes translated himself.
It is also reported that earlier Yezhov worked at the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States, as well as in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.