A court blocked real estate worth almost Hr 500 million ($13.4 million) of Oleg Tsaryov, a former Ukrainian lawmaker who defected to Russia and is suspected of financially contributing to Russian aggression, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Feb. 2.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that a suspect in the shooting of pro-Russian politician Oleg Tsaryov was arrested and later confessed, the Russian state-run news agency TASS reported. Russia has an ongoing track record of extracting confessions under duress.
Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who fled Ukraine in 2014, was shot in the early hours of Oct. 27 in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Russian reports.
Key developments on Oct. 27: Zelensky: Russia has lost at least a brigade trying to capture Avdiivka Germany delivers IRIS-T air defense system, other aid to Ukraine Russian pilot sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for killing civilian Ukraine retrieves 50 bodies of fallen soldiers Wanted pro-Russian politician reportedly shot in Crimea Russia claims drone attack on Kursk Nuclear Power Plant Russia has lost at least a brigade of troops trying to capture Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast during its latest offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 27. A brigade in the Russian army can include between 2,000 and 8,000 personnel, according to open sources.
According to an undisclosed intelligence source of Ukrainska Pravda, Tsaryov "has long been on the list of traitors who must answer for their crimes and is therefore an absolutely legitimate target."