MOSCOW, August 3 (RAPSI) - The Obolonsky District Court of Kiev plans to hear testimony of former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Yury Sergeyev in the treason case against ex-president Viktor Yanukovych on August 15, spokesperson of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Larisa Sargan, wrote on her Twitter account on Thursday.

In December, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko read charges against Yanukovych in a court through videoconference link. According to Lutsenko, Yanukovych, who was involved in violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, is held responsible for a 1.8-trillion-hryvnia (about $70 billion) damage caused to the country.

Shortly after, the Pechersky District Court in Kiev issued an arrest warrant for Yanukovych in absentia.

On May 4, Ukraine’s military prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko said that prosecutors will seek life imprisonment for Yanukovych.

On July 5, Yanukovych told Russian journalists that he refused to take part in the trial. According to Yanukovych, he does not want to participate in a trial with a predetermined outcome adding that “lawyers are powerless in a country of annihilated justice”. He also recalled his defense team.