KIEV, June 16 – Ukraine's Justice Ministry is conducting a policy of interfering with the free legal aid system at all levels, threatening its institutional independence and acting not in line with international standards, Deputy Justice Minister of Ukraine Andriy Vyshnevsky said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

"Last year under the initiative of the Coordinating Centre for Legal Aid Providing the Council of Europe independently assessed the free legal aid provision system, and one of the key problems international experts were pointing was too broad powers of the Justice Ministry towards the system," he said.