Former NSDC official Sivkovich faces new suspicion
21 February 07:25
Former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Volodymyr Sivkovych has been served with a new suspicion of high treason. This was reported by with reference to the State Bureau of Investigation.
According to the investigation, he staged a provocation in the interests of Russia to beat up participants of the Student Maidan on 30 November 2013.
It is noted that Sivkovych was recruited by Russia in the late nineties, when he was a career officer of the KGB and FSB. The official performed the tasks of the top political leadership of the aggressor country to prevent Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration.
“It is documented that in October 2013, he met with the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, as part of consultations between the NSDC delegations of the two countries in Odesa. At this event, the traitor received instructions on further subversive activities against Ukraine and suppression of potential protests over Ukraine’s refusal to join the EU,”
– the SBI said in a statement.
Thus, on the night of 29-30 November 2013, he personally supervised the organised dispersal and beating of students from the office of the chief of the Kyiv police. That day, 55 participants of the peaceful assembly were injured.
These events led to a socio-political crisis, mass protests against the political leadership of the state in power at the time. This, in turn, led to the strengthening of separatism in certain regions of Ukraine and was later used by the Russian Federation to conduct subversive activities against our country.
“By his actions, Sivkovych damaged the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, defence capability, state and economic security of Ukraine, created exceptional preconditions for Russia to take active steps to occupy the territory of part of Ukraine,”
– law enforcement officials emphasise.
The traitor faces up to 15 years in prison on this suspicion.
Currently, Sivkovych is hiding in Russia.
It should be noted that on 23 July 2022, the State Bureau of Investigation already notified Sivkovych of suspicion of high treason, as well as three Russian FSB officers of espionage.
According to the investigation, the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Crimea, Oleh Kulinich, together with Sivkovych, ensured the Russian occupiers’ rapid capture of the southern regions of Ukraine, and concealed information about Russia’s plans to attack southern Ukraine from the temporarily occupied Crimea.