KIEV, Oct. 3 – Former Ukrainian officials - Viktor Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov and Viktor Pshonka, as well as their families – have received Russian citizenship, said Anton Heraschenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian interior minister.

"The families of Yanukovych, Pshonka and Azarov have managed to agree with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin on the provision of Russian citizenship, and they may still feel dry and comfortable. I learned from operational sources that [Russian] nationality to Ukraine's betrayers had been granted under a separate secret decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a reward for their faithful service on the collapse of [Ukraine's] national security, defense, law and order system and economy," he wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.