The Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main investigations department is so far not inclined to attribute the killings of two policemen in Kyiv to the ongoing protests in the city center.
"Investigators are not attributing these killings to the Euromaidan and mass unrest. We have the facts of killings, and they are being investigated. If there is such information, we will certainly work on it," Vitaliy Sakal, a first deputy chief of the main investigations department, said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.
The killings took place in the Holosiivsky and Obolonsky districts of Kyiv, while the protests are under way in the Shevchenkivsky and Pechersky districts, he said.
It was reported earlier that a 27-year-old policeman from the Holosiivsky district police department was killed on the evening of January 24. The policeman had served not far from the base of the Berkut riot police task force and was walking home from duty in civilian clothing when he was shot and killed. Witnesses saw two people running away from the scene.
A 42-year-old policeman serving at the Dniprovsky district police department in Kyiv was wounded to his chest in a park on Lazo Street on January 28. He suffered heart and diaphragm injuries, was hospitalized but died several hours later.
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