The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on Sunday evening asked Ukraine to arrest the head of the SBU in Kyiv and extradite him to Moscow, Business Insider reports.

Vasyl Malyuk, head of the SBUPhoto: Press Office of the President of Ukraine / Zuma Press / Profimedia

The ministry headed by Sergei Lavrov issued a press release accusing SBU Director Vasyl Malyuk of the explosion that took place on the Kerch Bridge in October 2022 and as a result of which Russia claims that 5 people they lost.

In the communique of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the explosion was called one of the “barbaric terrorist attacks” on the territory of Russia, mentioning among them the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall, which took place in Moscow on March 22 and as a result of which at least 140 people were injured. lost their lives

The new communiqué of the ministry headed by Lavrov appears to be part of the concerted actions of the Russian authorities regarding the accusation of terrorism against Ukraine and the West, given that Malyuk announced the attack on the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea with mainland Russia. , from July 2023

“The destruction of the Crimean bridge on October 8 last year was one of our actions. “There were many different operations, special operations. We will be able to talk about some of them publicly and loudly after the victory, we will not talk about others at all,” Malyuk said on July 26, 2023.

He stated this during the televised ceremony of opening a commemorative stamp dedicated to the actions of Ukrainian special forces during the war, which was launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022.

Ukraine reminds the Russian Foreign Ministry about Buchi’s atrocities

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia called the attack a “terrorist act” and called on Kyiv to “immediately arrest and extradite all those involved.”

The SBU called Russia’s claim “especially cynical in the memory of the liberation of Buchi and the disclosure of atrocities committed there by the Russians.”

“So any words of the Russian Foreign Ministry are worthless,” the Kyiv service emphasizes in its own press release.

He also reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin is under an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in March of last year on charges of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia from the occupied territories, which is a war crime under international law.

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