Fugitive MP Dmytruk seen in London. Exclusive video

In the provided video, a person who looks like Dmytruk is talking to a seller at a hardware store. As noted, it was filmed in the Westfield London shopping center in west London on September 1.

The footage shows Dmytruk presumably talking to a dark-haired woman holding a little girl in her arms. This is probably Dmytrk's wife Anastasia and their daughter Varvara. The last time Anastasia Dmytruk published a story on Instagram from London six weeks ago when she showed visits to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

We contacted Artem Dmytruk for a comment, to clarify with him whether he is really in London with his family. We are waiting for the answer.

Earlier, the investigative journalist of Ukrainska Pravda Mykhailo Tkach wrote that MP Dmytruk crossed the border with Moldova on foot through the Palanca checkpoint, asked for protection there and allegedly received temporary asylum until his case was considered. But from the Štefan-Vode police station, Dmytruk went to the airport of the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, Tkach said.

From there, according to the investigator, he flew to Rome's Fiumicino airport. UP sources claimed that Dmytruk went on to either London or Istanbul.

The State Border Guard Service officially confirmed that Dmytruk crossed the border not through a checkpoint, but through the so-called green zone of the border.

MP Dmytruk himself previously stated that there were attempts to kidnap his family from a hotel and airport somewhere in Europe. The lawmaker did not publicly inform about the current stay of him and his family.

Background

On August 25, media reported that MP Artem Dmytruk illegally left Ukraine. Currently, this fact has been confirmed by the State Bureau of Investigation. The apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada publicly stressed that he was not sent on a business trip abroad.

Earlier, Dmytruk wrote in his Telegram channel that there are alleged attempts to arrest him on the instructions of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to him, his place of residence in Kyiv and Odesa was to be searched and arrested.

Already after the report of Dmytruk's departure, he was indicted for beating a serviceman in 2023 and was summoned to the SBI for investigative actions on August 29 and 30.

Due to the departure of MP Dmytruk, law enforcement officers initiated criminal proceedings and searched border guards. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a meeting with the participation of the heads of law enforcement agencies so that they would give "clear answers" regarding "traitors of Ukraine who helped or justified Russian aggression and who fled Ukraine."