Russia has issued warrants for the arrest of several former high-ranking Ukrainian officials, including former Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, former Ministers Pavlo Klimkin and Arsen Avakov, and former Minister of Information Policy Yury Stets, who served during the administration of President Petro Proshenko. Additionally, Oleksi Danilov, the former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and current ambassador to Moldova, has also been declared wanted.

The specific charges against these individuals have not been specified by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, it is known that in 2018, the Russian Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case against Arsen Avakov, accusing him of obstructing the voting rights of Russian citizens in Ukraine during the Russian presidential elections. Furthermore, in April 2024, allegations of crimes against residents of Donbass were leveled against Groysman and Klimkin.

More recently, on May 4, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs expanded its wanted list to include current and former Ukrainian presidents, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian Ground Forces commander Oleksandr Pavlyuk, and former Minister of Defense Mykhailo Koval.

In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has dismissed these actions as desperate propaganda maneuvers by the Russian state, highlighting that the warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova carry more weight. 

These warrants, issued on March 17, 2023, accuse Putin and Lvova-Belova of war crimes, specifically the illegal deportation of children from occupied territories in Ukraine.