This was announced by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
“On April 21, 2010, while in the city of Kharkov, the suspect signed on behalf of Ukraine an agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which extended the stay of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine by 25 years,” the TASS agency quotes.
In October 2021, a court in Kyiv arrested in absentia the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov, who is suspected of high treason during the conclusion of the Kharkiv agreements.
On March 12 last year, the SBU launched an investigation into Azarov’s “high treason” and clarification of the circumstances of the signing of an agreement between Kyiv and Moscow on the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine until 2042.