Prigozhin refused to go to Kyiv for interrogation

The founder of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, refused to go to Kyiv for an interrogation, for which the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office summoned him. It is reported by RBC with reference to the press service of the businessman.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine declared Prigozhin suspected of encroaching on the territorial integrity of the country and “waging an aggressive war” and summoned him to report the suspicion and for questioning on one of the days – February 13, 14 and 15.

“Of course, my trip to Kyiv is out of the question,” Prigozhin said, adding that a “healthy person” does not go naked in the cold. “And as part of the friendly team of PMC Wagner, for the sake of objectivity, I won’t have time to get to Kyiv in these terms,” the message says.

Prigozhin suggested that the Ukrainian side stop resistance in Bakhmut (Russian name Artemovsk) in the DPR. “Then I can enter from the territory of Belarus,” the founder of the PMC pointed out. He also invited the representatives of Kyiv to come to Bakhmut, “we will sit quietly and discuss everything,” he said.

The Ukrainian investigation believes that Prigozhin “was endowed with the authority to recruit, train and manage persons subordinate to him for their further use in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine” with “the full support of the current Russian regime.”

In this regard, a case was brought against the businessman under Part 3 of Art. 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), part 2 of Art. 28 (commission of a criminal offense by a group of persons), Part 2 of Art. 437 (planning, preparation, initiation and conduct of an aggressive war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The article on infringement of immunity provides for punishment up to life imprisonment.