Zelensky outlaws the Socialist Party of Ukraine, which joins eleven other banned pro-Russian political formations

Volodimir Zelenski, president of UkraineEuropa Press kyiv justifies the ban on “evidence of the party’s destructive activities”, which endanger national securityAmong the banned formations, they cite the Socialist Party’s support for Russia’s “aggressive anti-Ukrainian policy”A Ukrainian court has definitively outlawed the Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSU) for considering it pro-Russian, as reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). “The activities of twelve pro-Russian parties have been definitively prohibited in Ukraine at the initiative of the SBU”, the own security agency this Saturday on its Telegram channel. The decision has been made by the Administrative Court of Cassation of Ukraine, part of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, which has rejected the appeal of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. The ban “is based on evidence about the destructive activities of the party, collected within the scope of the SBU’s response to threats to national security”, the agency has indicated. In particular, they cite the PSU’s support for Russia’s “aggressive anti-Ukrainian policy”, both at the level of the leadership and of the “ordinary” members of this party.Other vetoed formationsThe PSU thus joins a list of twelve banned parties that includes the Opposition Bloc, Socialists, Justice and Development Party, Nashi, State, Vladimir Saldo’s Bloc, Left Opposition, Sharia Party, Union of Left Forces, Opposition Platform-For Life and Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine. Representatives of these political forces had direct participation in the “es establishment of an occupation regime in the Ukrainian territories captured by the Russian Federation” and in the “organization and carrying out of false ‘referendums’ in these territories”. The activities of these formations were already prohibited as a result of a presidential decree of the president Volodimir Zelenski, who linked the measure to the declaration of martial law after the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24.