MOSCOW (AP) -- Ukraine's General Prosecutor's Office
has launched a criminal investigation of 20 senior Russian officials, including
the Russian defense minister.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said Monday
they are suspected of involvement in crimes against Ukraine's national
security. He said Ukrainian authorities plan to seek international warrants for
their arrests.
The list includes Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu and two of his deputies, Kremlin economic adviser Sergei Glazyev, a
former presidential envoy to Crimea, and other top officials.
Russia and Ukraine have been in a tug-of-war since
Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and backed a
pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Tensions have spiked after Russia
said that it had busted a group of Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea, a claim
Ukraine has denied.
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