Oplot leader faces criminal charges

A criminal case has been opened against Yevhen Zhylin, the leader of the Kharkiv-based organization called Oplot, Ukraine's Acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

"The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has launched a criminal case against Yevhen Zhylin, the leader of the Kharkiv-based organization Oplot, under a number of Criminal Code articles. A team of investigators has been formed and sent to Kharkiv," Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.

Earlier the organization leaders made anti-Maidan statements.