Ex-Minister Zakharchenko says provocations plotted in eastern Ukraine to discredit Russian army
ROSTOV-ON-DON. April 14 (Interfax) - Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the Ukrainian Interior Minister until late February 2014, says provocations are being prepared along the Ukraine's eastern border.
"As far as we know, provocations are being plotted along the border in eastern Ukraine with the purpose of discrediting Russian servicemen," Zakharchenko told a press conference in Donetsk on Sunday.
He also claimed the deliberate dismantlement of legal and social institutes.
"Illegitimately appointed persons - Turchynov, Avakov, Nalyvaichenko and Makhnitskyi - are giving illegal orders," Zakharchenko said.
In his words, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitskyi has ordered that "the injuries and death of police officers who were protecting the constitutional system of our country" not be investigated.
