Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov continues to transfer money to Ukraine to fund staged protests with the aim of creating propaganda for Russian media outlets, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) head Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said.

"We are worried that, even staying in Russia, in Moscow, for instance, the former prime minister continues to transfer money through couriers and accomplices to orchestrate so-called mass actions in Kyiv," Nalyvaichenko said at a meeting of the parliamentary anti-corruption committee on Wednesday.

He said that a protest took place outside the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Tuesday, which was staged not for the Ukrainian media, but rather for the Russian media.