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Russian officials face Ukrainian charges
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KIEV, Aug. 22 - Ukrainian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against nearly two dozen top Russian government officials, alleging "grave" offenses committed against the nation's national security.

Ukrainian authorities plan to seek international arrest warrants for the officials, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and two of his deputies, Kremlin economic advisor Sergei Glazyev, and a former presidential envoy to Crimea, said Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.

"Based on evidence collected the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on August 8 notified the individuals that they are suspected of committing serious crimes against the national security of Ukraine, endangering public safety, peace and breaking international laws," Lutsenko said.

"Top elected officials and officers belonging to the Russian Federation Armed Forces are on the list," Lutsenko said.

The announcement comes days after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Ukrainian government of sabotaging peace accords and sending agents to Crimea to carry out terror attacks, underscoring rising tensions between the two countries.

Lutsenko said the charges are connected to Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, which has been followed by serious conflict between the nations.

Lutsenko encouraged the charged officials to turn themselves in to testify in the case.

Officials said the Russian officials will soon be placed on an international wanted list, due to the purported violations of international law.

The conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government troops in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 9,500 people since February 2014. In 2015, the fighting was reduced by peace accords signed in Minsk, Belarus. But tensions are on the rise since Russia claimed to have caught a group of Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea earlier this month.

Experts say that suggests the Kremlin is tiring of the long stalemate over the war-torn Donbas region, and is readying for a concerted push to solve remaining issues and prompt an end to the Western sanctions that even Putin admits are "severely harming" Russia's economy.

But as tensions have escalated again, so has the violence. The Ukrainian president's office said on Thursday that three troops had been killed and six wounded in eastern Ukraine, leading President Petro Poroshenko to warn that martial law and military mobilization could be imposed if the fighting worsened. (ap/ez)




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