Murder charge for ex-president

THE former president of the Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, has revealed he has been charged with the killing of a journalist in 2000.

Kuchma said: “I have been served with charges.” However, he added: “I have not yet read (them) from beginning to end.”

He said that he will meet investigators on Monday.

Prosecutors this week announced they had opened a criminal probe against Kuchma on suspicion of giving orders that led to the brutal killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000. It is one of the most notorious crimes committed in post-Soviet Ukraine.