Berkut
June 25 2021, 1:35 pm
Court sentences Berkut ex-commander for obstructing work of journalists in 2014
Sosnovsky District Court of Cherkasy found the former commander of the Berkut special police battalion at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of …
Interfax-Ukraine
June 14 2021, 6:56 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Berkut officers who attacked protesters during EuroMaidan given first ever prison sentences
A Kyiv court on June 14 handed down the first ever prison sentence to former members of the Berkut special riot police for brutality against peaceful …
Anastasiia Lapatina
June 14 2021, 5:42 pm
Two ex-Berkut commanders sentenced to real imprisonment
Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv has passed a verdict against two former commanders of the Berkut special-purpose police regiment, according to …
Interfax-Ukraine
March 18 2021, 3:51 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Journalist who called attention to Russia’s war crimes is detained in Belarus
Dzianis Ivashin, a Belarusian journalist with vast experience in reporting on Russia’s war in Ukraine, has been held in jail for almost a week on …
Illia Ponomarenko
Aug. 6 2020, 8:08 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Zelensky appoints new deputy chief of staff Tatarov, who helped persecute EuroMaidan protesters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleh Tatarov as deputy head of the Presidential Office on Aug. 5. As a police official in 2014, …
Artur Korniienko
May 21 2020, 2:43 pm
SBI suspects two Berkut officers of forging case files during Maidan
The department of the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) for the investigation into the crimes committed during mass protests in 2013-2014 in …
Interfax-Ukraine
Feb. 9 2020, 11:37 am
Hromadske: 2 ex-Berkuters accused of EuroMaidan shootings return to Kyiv
Two former officers of Ukraine’s riot police Berkut (now disbanded) who were sent to the occupied Donbas as part of the Dec. 29 prisoner swap have …
Hromadske International
Jan. 5 2020, 10:45 am
UNIAN: Lutkovskaya says Russia refused to swap military without ex-Berkut troops
Ukraine’s Representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group for the Donbas settlement Valeria Lutkovska says Russia refused …
UNIAN
Dec. 31 2019, 5:56 pm
Hromadske: Families of Euromaidan victims talk ex-Berkut officers exchange
On Dec. 29, the five ex-Berkut officers accused in the mass shootings at the Instytutska Street in February 2014 – Oleh Yanishevskyi, Serhiy …
Hromadske International
Dec. 31 2019, 12:35 pm
UN concerned over transfer Berkut police officers to occupied Donbas
The transfer of five former Berkut police officers to the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed “republics” in Donbas during release of …
Interfax-Ukraine
Dec. 29 2019, 2:48 pm
Hromadske: Sentsov says ‘values that Ukrainians fought for turn to dust’
The prisoner exchange in the Donbas which is going to include the five ex-Berkut officers that are accused of killing dozens of people on Instytutska …
Hromadske International
Dec. 28 2019, 11:38 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Court releases former Berkut officers charged with EuroMaidan killings
The Kyiv Court of Appeal on Dec. 28 released from custody five former police officers of the now disbanded Berkut unit who had been charged with the …
Oleg Sukhov
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Kostyantyn Chernichkin
Dec. 1 2019, 4:28 pm
UNIAN: Zelensky seeks meeting with students beaten by Berkut
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky next week intends to meet with young protesters who were brutally attacked by the Berkut riot police at the …
UNIAN
Aug. 22 2019, 8:39 pm
Ex-Berkut officer tried in Kyiv could be swapped for Ukrainian sailor
A former officer from the Berkut special-forces unit, Alexander Sattarov, who is being tried in Kyiv for involvement in the “self-defense” of Crimea, …
Interfax-Ukraine
March 27 2019, 2:55 pm
Open Democracy: An interview with Euromaidan lawyer Evgeniya Zakrevska
Ukrainian courts are still examining cases connected to crimes committed during the country’s Euromaidan revolution in 2013-2014. Defendants include …
Open Democracy
March 21 2019, 5:32 pm
Lawyer: Court hearing ‘Maidan killings’ case refuses to hear testimony of ‘Georgian snipers’ via video link from Belarus
The Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv, which is considering the case on charges of five ex-employees of the Berkut riot police in the killings of …
Interfax-Ukraine
March 11 2019, 9:43 pm
Hromadske: Could Ukraine’s Berkut officer have died fighting in Syria?
On Feb. 20, 2014, at the height of the violence during Ukraine’s EuroMaidan protests, officers of the now-disbanded Berkut riot police took up arms …
Hromadske International
Feb. 21 2019, 10:49 am
UNIAN: Ex-riot police officer suspected of murdering Maidan protesters allegedly killed in Syria
Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office received from residents of Vinnytsia region information claiming that former Berkut riot police operative Ruslan …
UNIAN
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