Judge Yuriy Burbela of the Kyiv Sviatoshynsky court of Kyiv region, who handed down the guilty verdict to "suspected terrorists" in the town of Vasylkiv, remains in intensive care at the Kyiv regional hospital after suffering a stroke, hospital chief Mykola Ankin told Interfax-Ukraine.
“Burbela is in intensive care after being diagnosed with a stroke. His condition is satisfactory and stable,” he said on Monday.
The patient will be moved to the neurology department in a couple of days, he also said.
An informed source told Interfax-Ukraine that Burbela had been threatened before and after the verdict was announced, which may have led to his current condition.
As reported, on January 10, Kyiv Sviatoshynsky court of Kyiv region found Ihor Mosiychuk, Volodymyr Shpara and Serhiy Bevz guilty of the intention to blow up a monument to Lenin in Boryspil during the Independence Day celebrations in 2011 and sentenced them to six years in prison each. Activists tried to block a prison van with the convicts. Clashes between the Berkut special forces and the protesters were reported.
An unidentified liquid was sprayed in the judge’s face when the verdict was being read out, the police said.
