Who is Yevheniy Murayev, the politician the U.K. says Russia wants ...

In a highly unusual public statement posted Saturday titled "Kremlin plan to install pro-Russian leadership in Ukraine exposed," the U.K.'s Foreign Secretary said her office has information indicating the Russian government was looking to install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv. An undated handout photo provided by the Nashi (Ours) political party, showing party leader and former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev in Kyiv, Ukraine.The 45-year-old Murayev has long established himself as a Ukrainian politician friendly to Russian causes. Not only that but money from my father's firm there has been confiscated."In a statement Sunday, the Russian Embassy to the U.K. said the claim demonstrated "an obvious deterioration of British expertise on Russia and Ukraine." The embassy said Murayev "happens to be under Russian sanctions for being a threat to national security." Murayev has been on Russia's sanctions list since 2018.London should "stop the stupid rhetorical provocations, quite dangerous in the current heated situation," the embassy said.On Saturday, Murayev posted a mocked up photo of himself as James Bond, promising more details would come shortly.