Ex-chief of Ukraine's General Staff suspected of treason

Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said this at a press conference on Monday, Ukrinform reports.

"The work of the SBU office in Kyiv has ended with a notice of suspicion presented to Colonel-General Volodymyr Mykhailovych Zamana, the former chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who held the post between 2012 and 2014," the military prosecutor said.

Matios added that the colonel general is suspected of committing a crime envisaged in Part 1 of Article 111 (high treason) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Zamana served as chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from February 2012 to February 19, 2014. Between February 22 and June 2014, he worked as parliament envoy overseeing the activities of the Defense Ministry.