Lutsenko wants Yefremov to make a plea deal, tell inquiry about start of Russia's undeclared war in Donbas
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said that ex-head of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction Oleksandr Yefremov, who was detained on Saturday, may become a witness in the case on Russia's unleashing undeclared war in Donbas.
"In my opinion, Yefremov is a very valuable witness. He can tell how the events unfolded at the initial stage of Russia's undeclared war in Donbas," Lutsenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.
The prosecutor general said that he will ask investigators to offer a plea bargain to Yefremov.
"I will instruct investigators after the likely arrest of Yefremov to offer him a deal with the investigation. It will not allow him shirking responsibility. I am deeply convinced of this. But if Mr. Yefremov testifies about the Russian leadership plans known to him about the very start of the aggression against Ukraine, on those who first brought Russian combatants into the territory of Luhansk for the seizure of the SBU premises and subsequently the regional administration, on who funded this... I think that the investigation will take into account his testimony. If he thinks about the future of his country, I think he should agree to such a bargain," Lutsenko said.