Nel 2015-2016 l’ufficio del procuratore generale della Russia ha rifiutato la richiesta di Kiev di arrestare l’ex presidente ucraino Viktor Yanukovich, motivandolo con i tentativi dell’Ucraina di perseguitarlo. Lo ha detto il portavoce dell’ufficio, Alexander Kurennoy, a Sputnik. “Le richieste sono state respinte per i motivi previsti dal comma 2 dell’articolo 3 della Convenzione europea sull’estradizione del 13.12.1957. La parte ucraina è stata informata di ciò”.

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office turned down Kiev’s request to detain former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2015-2016, finding political motives in Ukraine’s attempts to have him prosecuted, the office’s spokesman, Alexander Kurennoy, said Monday. “I inform you that in 2015-2016 requests were received from Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office… on temporary detention… of Yanukovych prior to receiving requests on his extradition… The requests were dismissed for reasons envisioned by Paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the European Convention on Extradition of 13.12.1957, and the Ukrainian side was informed of that,” Kurennoy told Sputnik.