Russia has demanded that Ukraine arrest the head of the Security Service, Vasyl Malyuk. Kiev called these statements "worthless"
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement in which it called on the Ukrainian authorities to immediately arrest and extradite the persons it claims to be involved in terrorist acts against Russia. In particular, it called for the arrest of SBU head Vasyl Malyuk.
Russia demands from Ukraine the arrest of the head of the security service in the framework of two international conventions: "On Combating Terrorist Bombings" and "On Combating the Financing of Terrorism".
Among such terrorist acts, the ministry named the murder of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky, the attempted assassination of Zakhar Prilepin, the bombing of the Crimean bridge, as well as the actions of the Russian Volunteer Corps. The Foreign Ministry's statement links all these events to the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall.
The Russian Foreign Ministry claims that Malyuk on March 25 admitted Ukraine's involvement in organizing the bombing of the Crimean bridge in October 2022.
Malyuk did talk about this special operation in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV.
Meanwhile, the SBU called "worthless" the demand of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to arrest the head of the Ukrainian special service and reminded that in "The Hague are already waiting for Putin, not Malyuk" And also noted that the Russian Federation can make only one noteworthy statement — to declare its defeat in the war against Ukraine and withdraw its troops from its territory.
We will remind, on March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on charges of war crime — illegal deportation of children from Ukraine.
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Memorial to the fallen Moldovan soldiers of the Transnistrian War in Chisinau. Photo: Alexander Moisseenko
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The Russian capital faced one of the largest terrorist attacks in its history. The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which claimed the lives of many innocent people, was the second largest after the Beslan tragedy. But unlike previous attacks, this incident is shrouded in a layer of contradictory facts and ambiguities that point to possible miscalculations by the Russian security services
