KHARKIV, July 19 – Statements by Chief Technical Officer of the VKontakte social network (Russia) Nikolai Durov that law-enforcement officers are doing all they can to seize the Ukrainian servers of the company is an attempt to put pressure on Ukraine's Income and Tax Ministry, Minister Oleksandr Klymenko said.

"I think that this is a failed attempt to exert pressure… We are witnessing attempts to put pressure on the Income and Tax Ministry via the misrepresentation of facts," Klymenko said at a briefing in Kharkiv.