RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that a state security officer who was Ukraine's counterintelligence chief in the final weeks of former President Viktor Yanukovych's rule has been arrested on suspicion of "high treason." The head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, said in a televised interview overnight that Volodymyr Bik is suspected of helping "a foreign country to prepare saboteur activities in Ukraine."
Nalyvaychenko said Bik was arrested on November 8.
Nalyvaychenko said investigators are still searching for former SBU chief Oleksandr Yakymenko, who is wanted for alleged giving a command to shoot at the protesters.
There are dozens more ongoing high-treason probes targeting Yanukovych-era SBU officials.
The latest from Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council:
