Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on May 4 instructed the Interior Ministry together with all the law enforcement authorities and the Security Service of Ukraine in the framework of the law to rigidly suppress the activities of organized crime, the Cabinet of Ministers' press service has said.
“Our response [to organized crime] must be the same as it was this morning – tough and radical: the fight against organized crime in the country using all legal means and methods, the large-scale operation on the materials we have to avoid breaking the laws and shooting at police officers,” Yatsenyuk said at an operational meeting at the Interior Ministry, he gathered in connection with an armed attack on a fuel filling station in Kyiv, as a result of which two police officers were killed and three seriously injured.
He noted that one of the dead policemen had three children, the other one – two children. In this regard, the government’s press service stated Yatseniuk and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov would appeal to the Kyiv mayor to check the living conditions of the killed policemen’s families to provide them with housing.
Yatsenyuk noted the professional and well-coordinated work of the Interior Ministry, the deputy interior ministers and the Kyiv police.
The prime minister also said that the actions of the officers of the Interior Ministry, the National Guard and other law enforcers when implementing measures to ensure law and order on May 1 and 2 were effective, and we need to conduct the same activities on May 8 and 9.
