KIEV, February 26. /TASS/. Unprofessional steps of the government and Interior Ministry have resulted in a rampage of crime Ukraine has not faced since turbulent 1990s, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada parliament said on Friday.

"Ukraine has been cast back into the criminal 1990s," said Vadim Rabinovich of the Opposition Bloc faction, chairman of the Rada subcommittee for human rights.

"The crime rate has doubled over the past two years and even the capital has turned into a city dangerous for life," he said.

Citing the data released by Prosecutor General’s Office, Rabinovich said 13,000 especially grave crimes had been committed in 2013, while in 2015 — 21,500.