25 policemen were separated from the service after a shootout in the village of Knyazhychi of Brovary district, Kyiv region, as a result of which five law enforcement officers were killed Acting Chief of the National Police Vadym Troyan said.
“I think it is necessary, as long as we do not understand in details, who is to blame and who violated instructions or orders,” he said on Dec. 6 during a video conference of the departmental meeting with the Interior Ministry leadership and heads of structural and territorial police units.
He said that 25 police officers who took part in the special operation in Knyazhychi – from the operation’s heads to its participants – were dismissed. According to the head of the National Police, heads of police units are directly responsible for all the actions of their subordinates and all risky decisions.
A day earlier, on Dec. 5, Troyan reported that three leaders of the structural subdivisions of Kyiv police were discharged from service. They all took part in a special operation on detaining members of the gang, who are suspected in a series of assaults on the citizens of the capital and the Kyiv region.
As reported, on Dec. 4, 2016 at 4:00 am in the village of Knyazhychi, Brovary district, Kyiv region employees of Special Weapons and Tactics police (KORD) of Ukrainian National Police, while performing their duties, used automatic weapons against the staff of Brovary Police Department of the Main Guard Police Department, which, together with two officers of the Main Department of operational service of the National Police in Kyiv, who were also performing their duties, used automatic weapons in response. Five law-enforcement officers were killed.
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Yarovy initiated an official investigation into the shooting in the village of Knyazhychi.
