This is stated in the message of the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in the Telegram channel.

The court granted the petition of the investigator of the State Bureau of Investigation to “grant permission to carry out a special pre-trial investigation against the former President of Ukraine in criminal proceedings on the facts of organizing a number of grave and especially grave violent crimes, including premeditated murders committed against protesters in February 2014 in the central part the city of Kiev ".

In May, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said that Russia had refused to extradite Yanukovych.

She stated that Kiev intends to re-submit an extradition request.