Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy believes that at a meeting of Kyiv’s Sviatoshynsky district court on Friday, during which the former President Viktor Yanukovych will be deposed via videoconference link and notified officially of charges against him.

"I think the main thing the Ukrainian investigators should make is to read the charges to Yanukovych, so they can continue with the case," Parubiy told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

Verkhovna Rada’s chairman is convinced that Yanukovych is responsible for the tragedy during the Revolution of Dignity, the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas.

"I think that events that took place on Maidan and events which followed Maidan - responsibility of Yanukovych, who had became a stooge of Putin [Russian president Vladimir Putin] in Ukraine. And I think if we can get into touch, we must demand his [Yanukovych’s] return to Ukraine and read him the charges in accordance with the Ukrainian Criminal Code," the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament said.

As reported, Kyiv's Sviatoshynsky district court ruled on November 25 to question former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and former Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Interior Troops Commander Stanislav Shuliak via video link as witnesses in a case against five former members of the Berkut special task force concerning the killings on Maidan.

Yanukovych’s lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk urged the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine to provide high quality and reliable video link between Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv and the Rostov Regional Court of the Russian Federation to conduct the interrogation. He also said that a test video link between the courts in Rostov and Kyiv had been successfully checked.