MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Ukrainian court has definitively outlawed the Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSU) as it is considered illegal, according to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU)
“The activities of twelve pro-Russian parties have been definitively prohibited in Ukraine at the initiative of the SBU,” the security agency itself published this Saturday on its Telegram channel. The decision has been made by the Administrative Court of Cassation of Ukraine, part of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, which has rejected the appeal of the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
The ban “is based on evidence of the party’s destructive activities, collected within the scope of the SBU’s response to threats to national security,” the agency said.
In particular, they cite the support of the PSU for “Russia’s aggressive anti-Ukrainian policy”, both at the level of the leadership and of the “ordinary” members of this party.
The PSU thus joins a list of twelve outlawed parties that includes the Opposition Bloc, Socialists, Justice and Development Party, Nashi, State, Vladimir Saldo’s Bloc, Left Opposition, Sharia Party, Union of Left Forces, Platform of Opposition-For Life and Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.
The representatives of these political forces had direct participation in the “establishment of an occupation regime in the Ukrainian territories captured by the Russian Federation” and in the “organization and conduct of false ‘referendums’ in these territories”.
The activities of these formations were already prohibited as a result of a presidential decree by President Volodimir Zelenski, which linked the measure to the declaration of martial law after the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24.
