Former NSDC official Sivkovych faces new charges for organizing beating of students on Maidan
Former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Volodymyr Sivkovych has been charged with treason. According to the investigation, he staged a provocation in the interests of Russia to beat participants of the Student Maidan on November 30, 2013, reported the Office of the Prosecutor General and the State Bureau of Investigation.
According to the investigation, Sivkovych was recruited by Russia in the late 1990s, when he was a career officer of the USSR KGB and FSB, and performed tasks of the top political leadership of Russia to prevent Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration.
Investigators documented that in October 2013, he met with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev as part of consultations between the security council delegations of the two countries in Odesa. At this event, as noted, Sivkovych received instructions on further subversive activities against Ukraine and suppression of potential protests.
Law enforcement officials point out that on the night of November 30, 2013, Sivkovych personally supervised the dispersal and beating of students from the office of the Kyiv police chief.
At that time, 55 participants of a peaceful assembly on Independence Square in Kyiv were injured due to the unlawful actions of law enforcement officers, and more than 300 participants were forced to flee the city center and hide in St. Michael's Cathedral. This beating of the students became the driving force behind further events of the Revolution of Dignity, and later the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Investigators note that by his actions, Sivkovych harmed the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, defense capability, state and economic security of Ukraine.
His actions were classified under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - high treason. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison.
Sivkovych has already been charged with treason for working for the FSB and managing the Ukrainian part of a group that spied for Russia, as well as coordinating information sabotage against Ukraine, which involved, among others, MP Nestor Shufrych.
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