Kharkiv District Administrative Court on Wednesday satisfied a lawsuit lodged by the city's prosecutor's office to ban the activities of the pro-Russian South-East movement.

"The court recognized as weighty all evidence submitted by the prosecutor's office and decided to ban the South-East public movement through its forceful dissolution," the press service of the Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office reported.

According to Kharkiv Prosecutor Yevhen Popovych, when preparing the lawsuit prosecutors analyzed public events organized by South-East, as well as public statements made by the leaders of the movement, and concluded that the activity of the organization poses a threat to Ukraine's sovereignty.

As reported, the creation of the South-East movement was announced at a meeting in Kharkiv on March 30, 2014.

Movement coordinator Yuriy Apukhtin said that the movement would seek the creation of a southeast federal republic within Ukraine with extended powers and broad autonomy, as well as the granting of official status to the Russian language.

The movement's activists are regular participants of pro-Russian rallies in Kharkiv.