SSU exposes 12 Medvedchuk's associates who on russia's orders conduct information attacks against Ukraine: evidence against them given by detained Kyrylo Molchanov
Security Service of Ukraine
14:30, 14 August 2025
The Security Service of Ukraine has collected extensive evidence against information saboteurs of russia's FSB, who, under the leadership of Viktor Medvedchuk, are carrying out media attacks against Ukraine.
These are 12 members of an organized criminal group called The Other Ukraine, which operates in moscow under the guise of a civil association.
The SSU has gathered evidence against these individuals from various sources, including the testimony from Kyrylo Molchanov, a 'political expert' from Medvedchuk's media pool, who was detained in Poland in the spring of this year and is currently under arrest in Kyiv and cooperating with the investigation.
As the investigation revealed, Molchanov worked simultaneously for two special services of the aggressor state: the federal security service and the foreign intelligence service. The criminal proceedings established that one of his 'direct contacts' was the first deputy head of the fifth department of the FSB, lieutenant general Georgy Grishaev. The relevant texting was found on the suspect's phone.
On the occupiers' instructions, Molchanov and his 'colleagues' were engaged in justifying russian aggression, discrediting Ukraine in the international arena and destabilizing the internal situation in Ukraine's partner countries.
Moreover, Molchanov himself organized street protests in the EU in the interests of the kremlin, calling for an end to international support for Ukraine.
According to the investigation, Viktor Medvedchuk personally directed these activities. He agreed the creation of the organization The Other Ukraine directly with putin, after which the kremlin leader instructed the FSB to coordinate this project.
Medvedchuk then personally formed the 'staff' of the pro-kremlin association, which included top managers and propagandists from his former, now sanctioned, TV channels. Most of them left for russia at the beginning of the full-scale war.
On Medvedchuk's instructions, they prepared and disseminated anti-Ukrainian content through Telegram channels under their control, YouTube and the kremlin's foreign mouthpiece Voice of Europe, against which the EU imposed sanctions in 2024 thanks to cooperation between the SSU and the Czech law enforcement agencies.
After such materials were published, they were immediately picked up by kremlin propagandists for mass dissemination on their information resources.
It has also been confirmed that Medvedchuk is personally involved in financing the criminal organization and, to this end, works closely with putin's administration and russian government.
Based on the evidence, Security Service investigators have notified Medvedchuk and his 'subordinates' of suspicion in absentia. Among them are:
- Denis Zharkikh
- Artem Marchevsky
- Roman Kovalenko
- Ruslan Kalinchuk
- Yan Taksur
- Yuri Dudkin
- Ruslan Kotsaba
- Natalia Khoroshevska
- Bogdan Giganov
- Oleh Yasinsky
- Oleksandr Lazarev
The crimes of these enemy accomplices have been qualified under the Articles of the CCU:
- 109.3 (public calls for violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, dissemination of materials calling for such actions, committed as part of an organized criminal group);
- 111.2 (high treason, committed under martial law);
- 111-1.6 (collaboration);
- 161.3 (violation of equality of citizens depending on their race, nationality, regional affiliation, religious beliefs, disability and other characteristics, committed as part of an organized criminal group);
- 436-2.3 (justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants, committed as part of an organized criminal group).
Medvedchuk's associate Kyrylo Molchanov was separately notified of additional charges for working for enemy special services (Article 111.2 of the CCU - high treason, committed in wartime). The perpetrator faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Efforts to bring those responsible to justice are underway.
The investigation was carried out under the procedural supervision of Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office.
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