Former SBU chief urges personnel to ignore “criminal” order

KYIV. March 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister and former chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Alexander Turchinov has asked the SBU staff not to obey their bosses, who ordered to seize documents from Naftogaz Ukrainy.

"I would like to speak to the officers I used to work with. I am asking you: you are entitled not to obey the criminal order, you must not become a tool in the hands of criminals and corrupt officials, who follow the president's advice on how to manage or coordinate the Service," he said at a governmental briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.