Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko signed and filed a lawsuit to the court to ban activity of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU).

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According to an UNIAN correspondent, the Minister said this at press conference in Kyiv.

Petrenko noted that summing up a great number of documentary information concerning illegal actions of the CPU, which was given to the Justice Ministry by the law-enforcement bodies, “I made a decision today: signed and filed a lawsuit to ban activity of Communist Party of Ukraine”.

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Petrenko noted that the lawsuit was filed to District Administrative Court of Kyiv and it was registered today.