Zelenskyy added to Russia’s wanted list

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Russian news agencies on Saturday reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been added to a Kremlin wanted list.

Though the Russian Interior Ministry provided no details about the charges leveled against Zelenskyy, it said that a case had been opened against him “under an article of the criminal code.”

The move is seen as largely symbolic, since Zelenskyy is not on Russian soil.

Ukraine’s foreign ministry dismissed the reports of Zelenskyy’s inclusion as evidence of “the desperation of the Russian state machine and propaganda.

The Ukrainian president joins tens of thousands of alleged criminals on the online database.

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