According to rulings by the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in the western city of Lviv, all activities of the Left Opposition and the Party of Shariy have been prohibited, with “funds and other assets” set to be nationalized.
As Justice Minister Denis Malyuska explained, the two join other banned “pro-Russian” parties, whose activities were allegedly aimed at “undermining the sovereignty” of Ukraine.
Court hearings on Opposition Platform – For Life have been postponed till June 20. The party was led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a businessman who favored a different approach to relations with Russia and the West. He was placed under house arrest in April of last year, after his faction overtook Zelensky's Servant of the People in opinion polling.
The politician has since ended up in the custody of Ukraine's security services.
The Party of Shariy was founded in 2015 by Anatoly Shariy, a prominent blogger and critic of the Ukrainian government. In May, the Ukrainian Security Service announced that Shariy had been detained by Spanish police as the result of a “a special operation.”
