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A Moscow court serving the Vladimir Putin agenda has ordered the arrest of Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister and three former cabinet ministers.
Knewz.com has learned that former Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, former Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, former Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak, and Ihor Dovhan who heads up the embattled country’s Western Operational Military Command all made it onto Russia’s wanted list.
The crime that these men committed, according to a statement on Telegram, is that they allegedly used “prohibited means and methods of warfare.”
“Moscow court chooses preventive measure for ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine and ex-Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in absentia,” the announcement by the Courts of General Jurisdiction of the City of Moscow stated.
“By the decisions of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, Volodymyr Borisovich Groysman and Pavel Anatolyevich Klimkin, each, were chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of 2 months,” the update continued.
“The term is calculated from the moment of their extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation, or from the moment of their detention on the territory of the Russian Federation.”
The statement concluded by saying that “Klimkin and Groysman have been placed on the international wanted list.”
Notably – according to theKyiv Independent – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also on Russia’s wanted list along with former President Petro Poroshenko, Ground Forces commander Oleksandr Pavliuk, and Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval.
According to a report by the independent Russian news outlet, Mediazone, Russia’s “Wanted” list is brimming with names from Western countries too, including that of the Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and other “Ukrainian military personnel” along with what the Russian Federation refers to as “‘foreign mercenaries’ in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
Russia's judicial services have since the start of Putin’s special military operation in Ukraine, also passed judgments on some of its own citizens including journalists and singers.
In November 2023, Knewz.com reported that the Moscow Basmanny District Court sentenced Pyotr Verzilov to 8.5 years in absentia after accusing him of spreading false information.
The court alleged that the member of the Russian feminist band, Pussy Riot, disseminated “war fakes” and information that it called “deliberately false”.
During the same year, the Moscow court convicted journalist Marina Ovsyannikova on the same charges.
Ovsyannikova first caught the world’s attention during the early days of Russia’s invasion when she barged onto set during a live news program at the Television station where she worked.
In her hands was a poster that said: “Stop the war” and “They are lying to you.”
She was subsequently fired from the network, fined the equivalent of $3,000, and placed under house arrest.
It was not long before she and her 11-year-old daughter were reported missing and the Basmanny District Court sentenced her to 8.5 years in absentia.
She has not been heard from since and is rumored to have taken up exile in France.