17:15 22.07.2017

SBU says they prevented Russia-staged attempts to seize public receptions of Ukrainian PGO, Poroshenko's administration

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Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak has reported about the attempt to seize the public reception of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine and the planned provocation in the presidential administration, organized by Russia with the view of destabilizing the situation in Ukraine.

"Attempts to destabilize Ukraine continue. According to latest information, at a closed meeting of the Russian leadership in May, Putin criticized his assistant Surkov for the failure of the operation to destabilize the socio-political situation in Ukraine and set a new task to undermine the ruling regime in Ukraine within the shortest possible time. Kyiv has been chosen as a site for the provocation," Hrytsak said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

According to him, during one week - from June 28 to July 4, alone, the SBU prevented six attempts by the Russian side to organize protests outside the Polish Embassy in Ukraine. And on July 5, the SBU thwarted the seventh attempt of provocation, this time near the building of the consulate of Poland in Ukraine.

Hrytsak stressed that Russia also remains the main initiator of forceful provocations whose purpose is to show that Ukraine is allegedly the source of the spread of extremism.

"On July 12, on the instructions of the Russian side, an attempt was made to seize the public reception of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine," the SBU chief said.

Another provocation was being prepared in the public reception office of the Ukrainian president, Hrytsak said adding that they have a screenshot of the correspondence containing the plan of provocations from Moscow.

"The security service has established the organizers of these actions - all of them are on the territory of the Russian Federation. They received orders from Surkov and Ardzinba in the Russian presidential administration. The funding was provided by the Committee of Rescue of Ukraine Azarov and Oliynik, former high-ranking officials and fugitive oligarchs," the SBU head said.

The organization of anti-Polish pseudo-actions was led by Nikolai Dulsky, leader of the Ukrain

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