As a deputy, Dmytruk managed to travel abroad illegally

A spokeswoman for the DBR Tatiana Sapyan told about the illegal crossing of the border with a deputy. She says the investigation into Artem Dmitruk's case has been conducting for a long time, and border guards could be promoted.

Air Force sources in law enforcement reported that Dmitruk began to look for on August 23 in the morning. They received a message that the deputy could leave Ukraine from Odessa region to Moldova. On Saturday, August 24, the search was stopped in the afternoon. Then it became clear that the deputy had already left the country, adds the source.

Earlier, the deputy wrote on his social networks that "certain organized crime groups began to prepare the attempt" on him and his family, and he and his relatives "we are threatened with murder daily."

He wrote that security officers wanted to detain him, but they could not do it. He does not clearly write where he is now, but the media is writing about his flight from Moldova to Italy.

Dmitruk elected the Council from the "servant of the people" in Odessa, but because of a number of scandals from the faction expelled. The deputy became famous for his statements against vaccination, he defended the UOC -MP, and on the eve of escape from Ukraine, he got into a scandal, criticizing the operation of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

The deputy claimed that he was attacking the attack because of his "state activity and political views".

Who is Artem Dmitruk and what he is accused

In 2019, Dmitruk, Athlete and the Master of Sports in Coherlifting, was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the party "Servant of the People".

Since then, he has been accompanied by scandals: Dmitruk arranged a fight in the Verkhovna Rada, in the City Hall of Odessa, starred in Anatoly Shariy's propaganda film about the events in Odessa in 2014. He is the Hipdiakon of the UOC -MP and actively opposed the vaccination during the KOVID pandemic.

In November 2021, Dmitruk was expelled from the "servant of the people" faction. Already during the full -scale war, Dmitruk, together with MP Alexander Kunitsky, beat a man in the center of Kiev.

Then the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against the people's deputies, and the victim was a military. It was the episode that became the basis of a criminal case through which Dmitruk wanted to detain.

"The People's Deputy of Ukraine was informed of the suspicion of the attacks by a group of persons on a law enforcement officer and a military, an attempt on the abduction of firearms, causing the victim of moderate injury and hooliganism," the prosecutor's office reads.

The deputy repeatedly became involved in journalistic investigations, which were told about how he rides on expensive undeclared machines.

In February 2024, Artem Dmitruk pledged the Archdeacon of the UOC -MP Paul (Muzychuk), who was detained by the SBU on suspicion of justification and recognition of legitimate armed aggression of Russia against Ukraine.

During the adoption in the Parliament of the Law on the Prohibition of the ROC in Ukraine, Artem Dmitruk was one of those who publicly opposed the adoption of the document.

Artem Dmitruk reported that his interests are now protected by a Western law firm, which is a defender of the UOC -MP.

As Zelensky reacted

On the evening of August 25, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to this situation.

He did not name the direction of the deputy, but in the evening appeal declared the need for punishment for those who illegally fled from Ukraine and hidden from responsibility.

In this regard, the President even appointed a meeting with the participation of all law enforcement agencies.

"For those who work against our country: traitors of Ukraine who assisted or justify Russian aggression that have fled from Ukraine, hiding from responsibility. Our country needs clear answers to such persons," the President said.

Artem Dmitruk quickly commented on the President's statement on Facebook and called it "the Mount of Absurd and a desperate attempt to discredit anyone who disagrees with the regime."

According to him, the authorities want to “get rid of those who have the courage to defend their beliefs, speak the truth and defend the rights of the church and millions of Ukrainians.”

Can Dmitryuk's mandate

On August 26, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine published a statement that "the deputy of Ukraine Artem Dmitruk was not sent abroad".

Serhiy Yevtushok, the First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Regulation and Deputy Ethics on the National Teleterna, said that there are no constitutional grounds to deprive Dmitruk.

"Among the grounds - a judgment that is not yet available to Dmitruk today, deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship, if there is a dual citizenship (this is the powers of the President of Ukraine), death or own statement (about the mandate - ed.).

The DBR states the searches of civilians and border guards who could assist the deputy into illegal crossing the border.

"The circumstances by the investigators are known, there is a fact of illegal crossing the border. That is, officially Artem Dmitruk did not cross him. Investigative actions are ongoing," Tatiana Sapyan explained BBC.

The last scandal with the military

Last week, a non-factional deputy, who was once part of the "servant of the people", wrote in his telegram-channel that recently videos began to appear on the network, on which Ukrainian military in the Kursk region allegedly destroy monuments, offend local, "giving the Germans" and "arranging."

"Is there something" heroic "or" patriotic "in this? No, of course. It is a pure work against us. It is not just a moral aspect. Every such incident works against us!" - wrote Artem Dmitruk.

The officer and deputy commander of the 14th Regiment of the Armed Forces Yevgeny Karas reacted to the statement one of the first and announced the "hunt" for the deputy.

"Today he called our heroic fighters who are fighting in heavy battles in Kurshchyna. Who knows where the FSBShna Krysa moves?" - wrote Karas.

Volunteer bloggers Serhiy Sternenko and Igor Lachenko were also indignant with Dmitruk's behavior and wrote that "it would be better to replenish it with the exchange fund."

Lachenkov asked to respond to the situation of the Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, noting that "the deputy had already crossed all borders."