OREANDA-NEWS. The Shevchenko District Court in Kiev ordered the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) to initiate a case on the possible treason of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage due to the disruption of the operation to detain members of the private military company Wagner, former Verkhovna Rada deputy of Ukraine Andriy Teteruk said on Thursday. He went to court with a corresponding claim.

Earlier, Teteruk wrote a statement to the State Bureau of Investigations about Zelensky and his entourage allegedly committing treason in part of disrupting the operation to detain the Wagnerites. The department refused to initiate a criminal case, after which the ex-deputy went to court with a demand to oblige the State Bureau to investigate the case.

"Our complaint about the inaction of the RRB was satisfied in full. By the decision of the court, the RRB are now obliged to register, according to the law, our joint statement with Igor Lapin and Yury Gudimenko on the commission of a crime under Article 111" high treason "and to initiate the case and enter the data into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations" , - wrote Tetetruk on his Facebook page.

On July 29, 2020, the Belarusian authorities announced the arrest of 33 Russian citizens. Investigative Committee of Belarus clarified that the detainees were suspected of preparing riots in the republic. 

Kiev demanded the extradition of 28 citizens detained in Belarus in order to prosecute for alleged crimes related, according to Kiev, to participation in the conflict in Donbass. According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, the detainees did not commit illegal actions, and Russia did not interfere and does not interfere in the internal affairs of Belarus.

On August 14, 2020, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation reported that 32 out of 33 Russian citizens detained earlier on the territory of Belarus were returned to Russia. The thirty-third citizen of Russia, who also has Belarusian citizenship, remained on the territory of Belarus.