(Adnkronos) – Having facilitated the escape from Ukraine to avoid fighting, to avoid military service in a country now at war for over three years: this is the accusation made by the Police and the Ukrainian services (SBU) to a number two of the municipal administration of Kiev. The Kyiv Independent writes about it, underlining how various local media mention the name of Volodymyr Prokopiv. The newspaper, which relaunches what was leaked by the Police, explains that the ‘scheme’ involved getting Ukrainian men out of Ukraine’s borders as drivers for the transport of fuel for the military or humanitarian aid for Kiev. Direction, European countries. More than 30 men, according to the accusations, would have left Ukraine in this way only between May and June 2022. If convicted, he risks up to seven years in prison.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24 three years ago, Ukrainian boys and men between the ages of 18 and 60 have been prohibited from leaving the country, except in special cases.
Prokopiv, recalls The Kyiv Independent, was involved in other controversies and was suspended last October by the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, after a journalistic investigation into alleged suspicious real estate purchases by relatives of the official. Then, the newspaper reconstructs, a letter of resignation from Prokopiv arrived.
