Evgeny MuraevLONDON, Jan 23Former member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yevgeny Muraev, who was unsubstantiated by the UK Foreign Office declared «a pro-Russian leader in Kiev», suggested that the accusations against him may be related to someone's desire to «close another independent TV channel.» «It is difficult for me to digest this stupidity and nonsense. Maybe someone wants to close another independent TV channel,» Muraev told the British newspaper Telegraph. Muraev owns the Ukrainian TV channel Nash. According to him, as a person «who has been under Russian sanctions for four years, who is denied entry to Russia due to a threat to national security and whose father's assets were frozen in Russia», it is «difficult for him to comment» on the statement of the British Foreign Office. previously unsubstantiated accused the Russian special services of allegedly planning to imprison a «pro-Russian leader» in Kiev, as former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yevgeny Muraev was named in the ministry's statement. The statement was made a few hours after the Russian Foreign Ministry warned about impending information and military provocations from the West, in particular the United States, on Ukrainian issues. At the same time, the British department did not provide any evidence of their statements. The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the statement of the British Foreign Office, called it disinformation and another evidence that it was the NATO countries, led by the Anglo-Saxons, who were escalating tensions around Ukraine. Muraev, who fell under Russian sanctions in 2018, in response to a statement from the Foreign Office, said Strana.UA, that his family's assets in Russia were «arrested», and how it all fits together with the British intelligence services and the Foreign Office — «this is a question for Mr. Bean.» In an interview with the British Telegraph, Muraev called himself a «patriot of his country», saying that «another candidate» should be suspected — the newspaper itself believes that Muraev is hinting at Viktor Medvedchuk, with whom he has a commercial conflict. When reformatting the Opposition Bloc party in Ukraine «Muraev left the Opposition Platform — For Life» and created his own political force, Nashi. Previously, he was the owner of the NewsOne TV channel, and later founded his own Nash TV channel. The NewsOne TV channel, like two others, 112 Ukraine and ZIK, is under sanctions in Ukraine, they are opposition to the authorities, they are associated with the chairman of the political council of the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform — For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk. TV channels stopped broadcasting. The statement of the British Foreign Office about Muraev is the second discrepancy in the judgments of British diplomacy under the leadership of Liz Truss in two days: on Friday, speaking at the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney, she said that Ukraine had experienced many invasions — «from the Mongols to the Tatars. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, after the statements of Truss on Ukraine, asked about the educational institution that issued the diploma to the minister. for national security
