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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) notified Valentina Matviyenko, Russia’s Federation Council Chairwoman, who approved the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of suspicion in absentia. Matviyenko signed the Russian Parliament’s decision on the deployment of troops to Ukraine. The chairwoman also approved the ratification of the agreements on illegal accession of partially Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts to Russia, according to the SBU. Matviyenko regularly calls for the total invasion of Ukraine and claims it does not exist as a sovereign st…

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