Kyiv, through the spokesperson of the Ukrainian president, recommended to the Russian Interior Ministry to “appeal to conscience and common sense”
The Russian Interior Ministry has placed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as his predecessor Petro Poroshenko on the wanted list, according to the government database cited by the official information agency RIA-Novosti.
Official register maps do not specify which article of the Penal Code is incriminated – the same omission as on Mr. Poroshenko’s map.
In a comment addressed to RBC-Ukrainethe spokesperson for the Ukrainian president, Serhiy Nikiforovadvised the Russian Interior Ministry to “first appeal to conscience and common sense”.
Additionally, last year Russian authorities included the then head of the armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny and the commander of the ground forces at the time, Oleksandr Syrsky – who replaced Mr. Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces since February 8, 2024.
At the end of March 2024, Russia placed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vassyl Malioukon the wanted list, accusing him of “terrorism” for the operations that the SBU is carrying out in Russia, notes RBC-Ukraine.
Response to the arrest warrant against Putin?
It should be noted that last year the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the forced deportation of children Ukrainians to Russia. Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova is also the subject of a similar mandate. In response, Russian security forces placed the ICC judge who signed the arrest warrant against Putin on the list of wanted people.
Russia has placed several politicians and foreign figures on its wanted list, which has tens of thousands of entries.
