In Ukraine, investigations into the events of 2013-2014 are ongoing, when during the Revolution of Dignity, security forces used force against protesters.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the former commander of the special police battalion “Berkut” of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Lviv region was notified of suspicion for organizing illegal obstruction of protests on February 18, 2014 in the central part of Kiev.
According to the investigation, the suspect organized the commission of a terrorist act by his subordinate employees in order to prevent the mass movement of protesters from Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
“The ex-law guard ensured, without appropriate grounds and in violation of the norms of the current legislation, the indiscriminate use of special means and firearms by subordinate employees of the Berkut ILO. Such actions of the former commander of the Berkut battalion led to the killing of 3 protesters, infliction of severe bodily injuries 5, moderate - 43, light - 77 “- the message says.
The DBR added that a unit of law enforcement officers from the Lviv region under his leadership, together with others, used physical force and special equipment against the protesters, including light-noise grenades made in the Russian Federation, pump-action shotguns filled with cartridges with lead buckshot. All this happened on the street. Institutskaya and adjacent streets. According to the State Bureau of Investigation, then about 200 people received bodily injuries, including gunshots, of varying severity.
The defendant is suspected of exceeding official authority, committing a terrorist act, organizing grievous bodily harm, as well as committing premeditated murders and completed attempts to kill two or more protesters.
The name of the suspect is not known, but it is known that in those years the unit was headed by Rostistav Patselyak.
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