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EU chief faces urgent question over the fate of Ukrainian communist youth leaders
Supporters of the Greek Communist party stage a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in front of the Russian embassy in Athens, on Friday, February 25, 2022

GREEK communists have raised an urgent question in the European Parliament regarding the safety and whereabouts of two leading Ukrainian communist youth leaders arrested earlier this week on accusations of spying for Russia and Belarus.

MEP Kostas Papadakis wrote to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warning that the lives of Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine (LKSMU) leader, Mikhail Kononovich, and his brother, Aleksander Kononovich, are in danger.

He accused the EU of implementing an “unacceptable anti-communist legal framework that unhistorically and provocatively equates fascism with communism” while neonazi forces operate unchallenged and are even incorporated into the Ukrainian military and security apparatus.

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