Kharkiv ex-Berkut officers (screenshot from video)
The shooting of the Maidan: Kharkov Berkut want to run from Ukraine
Uncategorized April 15, 2017Four former employees of the Kharkiv battalion of the interior Ministry Berkut, which prosecutors are investigating about the crimes during the Maidan, including the murder of the protesters, said that “Ukraine has become dangerous.” Where are now removed from the duties of law enforcers is unknown.
The statement was made by Vitaliy Goncharenko, Tom Felts, Alexander coast and Vladislav Mastaga.
“When April 7, 2017 Sergey Gorbatyuk, head of the Department of special investigations of the GPU has publicly stated and began to threaten the judges of the court of Appeal for the fact that they dared to release the Kharkov eagle on liberty, criminal prosecution, hopes for fair consideration of this case simply vanished, and to stay on the territory in Ukraine, us is dangerous,” said the suspects.
Ex-Berkut officers said that their family after the “victory of the so-called revolutions of a gidnost” allegedly deprived of source of income, and that they themselves “were subject to criminal prosecution by governmental authorities and defrauded of part of society.”
Former security officials expressed readiness “to prove innocence before an independent and fair court”.
At the time of publication of news Sergey Gorbatyuk was unavailable for comment about the “threats to judges” and the current status of the Berkut officers.
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6 April 2017, the Appeals court decided to release from-under guards under the personal obligation ex-berkutovets Vitaliy Goncharenko, who is accused of killing three people on 18 February 2014 during the Maidan. Prosecutors demanded to leave Goncharenko custody.
Goncharenko, along with three other ex-fighters of subdivision Berkut detained in June 2016 in Kharkov. All four of them at the time of arrest worked in the police. Two of them – Alexander Belov and Vitaliy Goncharenko – accused of killing three members of the revolution of dignity in the Castle lane, and two more that they dropped from the colonnade on Grushevsky street on January 20, 2014 two protesters.
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