On December 19, 2023, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada forwarded a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to extradite Yaroslav Hunka (Gunko), a 98-year-old Ukrainian SS veteran and former soldier of the SS Galicia division. ). This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov. TASS.
According to him, the relevant note states that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case against Gunko within the scope of the article on actions aimed at the complete destruction of an ethnic group.
“Simply put, this is genocide,” the diplomat said.
He noted that there is no extradition agreement between the two countries, but there has been a mutual legal assistance agreement since 1997.
“This is a matter of principle. In fact, Gunko admitted that he joined the SS voluntarily and therefore committed all these crimes involving the Galician section. So a Nazi lives here. Will Canadian justice try him here? That’s the problem,” said Stepanov.
As the ambassador noted, the note states that the Russian Federation, after considering Hunka’s request for extradition to the Russian side, asked the Canadian Department of Justice to provide a response on the results of the examination of the documents provided.
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