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Makhnitsky: Some 50 people to be charged with organizing killings of Ukrainians

Published Feb. 24, 2014 at 6:54 pm

Candles and flowers sit on and near a barricade on Institutska Street where Ukrainians mourn those who died during clashes with police forces on Feb. 18-20 in Kyiv.

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More than 50 suspects, among them top-level law-enforcement officials, figure in the case of mass shootings of demonstrators in Kyiv.

“An inquiry launched against top state and law enforcement officials for organizing mass killings targets about 50 persons, among them top-level law-enforcement officials,” Oleh Makhnitsky, who was appointed Ukraine’s prosecutor general on Monday, said from the parliamentary rostrum.