Olena Lukash

Olena Leonidovna Lukash (Ukrainian: Олена Леонідівна Лукаш; born 12 November 1976) is a Ukrainian former jurist, politician, former Minister of Justice of Ukraine, as well as a former member of the Party of Regions. She was a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (2010). From February 2014, Lukash was wanted for charges of murder and mass complicity in the Revolution of Dignity when President Yanukovych fled to Russia. She is believed to have fled to Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity. From then she was also placed on an EU sanctions list. From June 2015 Lukash was also wanted on abuse of office and fraud charges. On November 5, 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Olena Lukash upon her return to Kyiv from Russia, and a court was opened to file charges against her. However on November 10, she was released on bail of over 5 million Hryvnia after she claimed that she deliberately had gone to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine to give evidence for an investigation into the deaths of over a hundred people in the Revolution of Dignity. In 2020, it was alleged that Lukash was currently hosting a program and guest-appearing on pro-Russian channels owned by Viktor Medvedchuk, as part of a wider Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine.