Court Of Appeal Urges Kyiv Obolonskyi District Court To Consider Yanukovych Case

The Kyiv Court of Appeal has urged the Kyiv Obolonskyi District Court to consider the case against former president Viktor Yanukovych accused of high treason.

Judge Stepan Hladii has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

Therefore, the Kyiv Court of Appeal has satisfied respective appeal of Chairperson of the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv Ruslan Kozlov on change of venue.

At that Yanukovych's lawyers insisted on consideration of the case by the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on March 14, the military prosecutor's office filed the indictment of Yanukovych to court.