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The new calls follow an exclusive CNN investigation in which former high-ranking Ukrainian military intelligence officials described attempts to lure suspected war criminals out of Russia to face prosecution for acts of violence committed in eastern Ukraine, where separatists backed by Moscow have been fighting for years.
CNN’s sources detailed and provided evidence that Russians arrested in Belarus last year were the target of this elaborate intelligence sting, with the knowledge and support of the United States, something US officials deny. But the Russians were never ultimately sent to Ukraine.
In the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday there was a brief scuffle, and rowdy scenes as opposition deputies held up placards accusing government figures of being responsible for the failure of the operation.
One placard read “time to name the traitors of Ukraine” and another placard read “we demand truth.”
On Wednesday, an adviser to the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,…
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