The head of the President’s Office Andrii Yermak in an interview with The Washington Post has said that his office plans to prepare a law according to which disclosing of secret records of high officials would be a crime.
According to Yermak, this initiative will aim to put an end to “malicious practice”, adding that it is necessary to “protect state security.”
“I want to emphasize that we regard this as a direct violation of the national security of our country. It’s not normal when someone records a head of state. And it’s not important whether this is the illegal act of a Ukrainian citizen because of some domestic motives, or some foreign intelligence services are behind it,” Yermak emphasized, commenting on the recordings of conversations between former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and former US Vice President Joe Biden.
The publication indicates that such a move could “reassure international diplomats alarmed about Ukraine’s apparent difficult in keeping high level conversation confidential,” and also “could protect Zelensky and his team from devastating leaks or disinformation campaigns that constantly appear.” At the same time, they believe that such a measure may cause dissatisfaction among journalists and anti-corruption activists if it does not allow them to publish corruption records of officials, judges, prosecutors and other persons.
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