18:31 06.07.2017

Ukraine's treason trial against Yanukovych to continue

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Ukraine's treason trial against Yanukovych to continue

The criminal trial accusing the former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, of treason will continue, the interests of the accused in the court will be represented by a public lawyer, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.

"Yanukovych turned out to be a coward even back in the early stage of the trial, but... This country has the practice of providing any person with a public lawyer. It is according to this procedure that this trial went ahead today," Lutsenko told journalists on Thursday.

A public lawyer will be provided very soon, the prosecutor general said.

"The trial will continue further. I am certain that even here, nothing will stop the law and justice: neither Yanukovych's escape, nor his cowardice, nor his loud soap bubbles regarding a coup d'etat," Lutsenko said.

A day earlier Yanukovych said that he did not want to attend the treason trial in Ukraine, and was recalling his defense lawyers from the court.

His lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk claims that once his client made such a decision - not to attend the trial and to recall his lawyers - any decisions by the Obolonsky district of Kyiv in this case will be legally void.

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