Ukrainian PGO expects Poroshenko to testify on Euro-Maidan events on Nov 29

Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine has called the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for questioning in the investigation into crimes committed in January-February, 2014 against Euro-Maidan activists.

"A summon has been sent to the Presidential Administration for November 29," Prosecutor General's Office special investigations department chief Serhiy Horbatiuk told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

Earlier Horbatiuk said that the Prosecutor General’s Office was waiting for Poroshenko to be questioned on Euro-Maidan cases.

It had been reported earlier that Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko had said on August 8 that former and incumbent high-ranking Ukrainian officials would be summoned for questioning on the events on Maidan in 2014. A number of high-ranking politicians and officials were invited to the Prosecutor General's Office special investigations department in August to be questioned as witnesses in investigations into crimes committed against Euro-Maidan activists in January-February 2014. In particular, investigators summoned President Poroshenko, former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy, head of the Zakarpattia regional administration Hennadiy Moskal and some others.

Presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko said Poroshenko would appear before Prosecutor General's Office investigators to testify in investigations into crimes committed against Euro-Maidan activists in January-February 2014 after he is officially summoned.

Horbatiuk said on October 3 that Yatsenyuk, Klitschko, and Moskal had ignored the summons, and Poroshenko lacked a 'window' for questioning in his schedule to testify on the case.