Berkut members were the first to use pump-action shotguns loaded with lead buckshot cartridges against protest participants. As a result, three protesters were killed, and three others sustained gunshot wounds.
An indictment was sent to the court against the former company commander of the Berkut special forces unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the city of Sevastopol and two policemen of this unit in the case of the massacre of activists on February 20, 2014 in the street. Institutskaya in Kyiv. The Office of the Prosecutor General announced this on Tuesday, October 15.
It was noted that on February 20, 2014, the commander of the Berkut special forces company and his subordinates were on Institutskaya Street in Kyiv near the pedestrian bridge around 9:00 in the morning.
They illegally used guns on the protesters – Fort-500 pump-action shotguns loaded with lead buckshot cartridges. As a result, three protesters were killed, and three more sustained bullet wounds of varying severity.
The crimes were preceded by more deliberate killings and injuries of protest participants committed by the so-called “black companies” of the Berkut and internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The accused returned to the city of Sevastopol, where they then turned to the Russian Federation and contributed to the annexation of the peninsula.
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Let’s recall that in September it became known that the former heads of the SBU and 21 senior officers of the FSB of the Russian Federation will be tried for crimes committed during the Revolution of Dignity.
It was first established precisely when former President Viktor Yanukovych ordered the execution of the Maidan. He gave the corresponding instructions to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko. After that, Zakharchenko had two phone conversations with Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev through government communications.
Source: korrespondent
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