Law enforcement officers completed the pre-trial investigation on the suspicion of former President Viktor

and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in the State Council's previous conspiracy.

They prepared and implemented the "Kharkiv Agreements".

This was reported by the press service of the SBI.  

"A number of former high-ranking officials contributed to the military plans of the aggressor state. They "looked after" the increase in the number of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers. At first, their "help" was used for the annexation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol in 2014, and later - for the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in February 2022," the message reads.

The fugitive ex-president Viktor Yanukovych ensured the legalization of the Kharkiv Agreement, on his instructions a draft of the intergovernmental agreement was prepared, approved by the central bodies of the executive power and approved at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The investigation established that the traitor Yanukovych assigned roles to create the appearance of legitimacy and involved almost all high-ranking government officials and people's deputies under his control.

Documents were signed, contrary to the national interests of Ukraine, on the extension of the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine for another 25 years, the build-up of the enemy's armed forces and equipment in Crimea.

"According to the basic agreements of 1997, the Russians were supposed to reduce their contingent on the peninsula. Instead, the Kharkiv agreements allowed the aggressors to have enough resources to occupy the peninsula in 2014 Rotkoot for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

"Because of these criminal actions at the end of 2013 - the beginning of 2014 in the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the number of personnel of the military of the Russian Federation and their military equipment exceeded the quantitative levels established by the Basic Agreements, in particular, in the city of Sevastopol there were at least: 2 thousand 917 personnel of the naval infantry, 152 armored fighting vehicles, 30 artillery systems with a caliber of 100 millimeters and above," explained the DBR.

History of the signing of the "Kharkiv Agreements"

On April 21, 2010, the then presidents of Ukraine,

.

The duration of the fleet's stay has been increased in exchange for cheaper Russian gas for Ukraine through the application of a discount in the form of cancellation of customs duties.

On April 27, 2010, the Verkhovna Rada and the State Duma of the Russian Federation ratified these agreements.

However, on March 31, 2014, the Russians unilaterally terminated this agreement, because they occupied 

.

Back in 2010, after the infamous "Kharkiv Agreements" were signed, Ukraine openly declared that this was treason.

At that time, Yanukovych was called "the governor of the Ukrainian region of the Russian Empire" and people said that this agreement was a military usurpation of Ukraine.

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the NSDC, noted that the "Kharkiv Agreements" were ratified by the parliament in an unprecedentedly short time, four days after signing.

In March 2021, the prosecutor's office accused Mykola Azarov and Viktor Yanukovych of treason.

In October, the former prime minister was arrested in absentia.

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