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The “European Solidarity” party declares political pressure and politically motivated criminal cases that the authorities are pressing against the deputies of the opposition faction in the Verkhovna Rada.

We have been repeatedly warned about the authorities’ order to put maximum pressure on the “European Solidarity” team.

This is an order to extract at least something from Poroshenko and the team members, to use all possible tools of pressure, including through families – from new criminal cases to searches.

But we did not expect that everything would be so limitless and absurd.

On Saturday morning, the State Bureau of Investigation came to our colleague Andriy Lopushansky with a search in a six-year-old case where a member of his family somehow appeared. The case was closed back in 2020 due to the lack of elements of a crime, but for some reason was reopened a month ago.

This is about the purchase of light bulbs for the village council by a private structure, to which a member of A. Lopushansky’s family had no connection and did not influence either the pricing or other issues of this contract.

The search was carried out in gross violation of the law – the investigators did not have a warrant signed by the acting Prosecutor General, and they are going to legalize this excess in the Pechersk court after it is carried out.

Andriy Lopushansky is known in his district for helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the families of fallen soldiers, and the health of the children of servicemen. But the main thing for the authorities is that he is a member of the “EU,” and therefore they must follow “Portnov’s excess.”

In November of last year, Andriy underwent a complex operation and had a long hospital stay. The investigators’