MOSCOW, March 18 (RAPSI) - The defense team for Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the ultra-nationalist Ukrainian political movement the Right Sector, has appealed an in-absentia arrest order issued against him by a Moscow court, RAPSI learnt in the court Tuesday.

“An appeal was filed yesterday,“ press secretary of the court Natalia Romanova said.

Yarosh, who is considered to be one of the Ukrainian protest leaders, stands accused of publicly endorsing extremism and terrorism in connection with a public appeal he is suspected of having made to North Caucasus militant commander Doku Umarov. Specifically, Yarosh stands accused of asking for help with carrying out terror attacks on Russian soil.

On March 5, Russian investigators placed Yarosh on an international wanted list. The international wanted list notification will obligate any state participating in Interpol joint efforts to detain Yarosh and prepare him for extradition to Russia.

Umarov, the self-proclaimed head of a secessionist group in the North Caucasus, has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in Russia and, most recently having threatened to attack the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Russia has marked the events that have unfolded in Ukraine a coup, and the armed seizure of power. President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference earlier in March that Viktor Yanukovich, who fled to Russia, remains Ukraine’s legitimate president.