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Investigators officially received from UN a photocopy of Yanukovych's letter to Putin

Prosecutor of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko has said that investigators officially received from the UN Secretariat a photocopy of a letter from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Russian President Vladimir Putin dated March 1, 2014, which requested the use of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.

"Investigators, during a business trip to New York, received from the UN Secretariat through Ukraine's Mission to the United Nations a stamped cover letter with photocopies of the address of [then Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly] Churkin on the recognition of Yanukovych's letter to the Russian president as an official document, as well as a photocopy of Yanukovych's letter to Putin. This document has been added to the materials of a criminal proceeding," he told reporters after a session of the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv on Wednesday, January 24.

Kravchenko noted that the prosecution had received four letters from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry about the received photocopies of documents, which Churkin presented on March 3, 2014 and which were recognized as official UN documents.

"The first copy we received from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is the text of Yanukovych's letter to Putin, which was sent by the UN Secretariat to every member of the UN Security Council, as well as to Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN," he said.

The prosecutor noted that Ukraine's former Permanent Representative to the UN, Yuriy Serheyev, then sent a request to find out what exactly Churkin attached to his address.

"Serheyev received a photocopy of Churkin's address on the recognition of this letter by Yanukovych as an official UN document," Kravchenko said.

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