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Kyiv Court of Appeals has changed the measure of restraint for the commander of the former Berkut special task force, who is suspected of organizing the killing of protesters in central Kyiv in Feb. 2014, to detention in custody instead of house arrest.

As Interfax-Ukraine was told at the court on Tuesday, the prosecutor
agencies asked the court to change the measure of restraint for Dmytro
Sadovnyk.

As earlier reported, Sadovnyk was arrested in connection with the
organizing the mass killings on February 18-20, and two Berkut officers
who were earlier sentenced to two months are suspected of being
accomplices in the crime.