Maidan Supporter ‘Helped Berkut Hide Evidence of Mass Shootings’

The person who helped Berkut officers leave the country after committing mass shootings on Maidan in February 2014 was a participant of the Maidan protests, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said on Saturday, July 23 on 112 Channel.

"With the help of the counterintelligence of the Ministry of Defense we found weapons used by the ‘black hundred’, including the sniper rifle seen by the whole country in the horrifying videos of shooting at Maidan protesters from near the October Palace. We found it together with many more automatic rifles a lake in Kyiv. They were cut in pieces and jettisoned by the same group of people, and the head of this group is already under investigation," Lutsenko said.

"Unfortunately, according to the investigation, on the orders of the then-Minister of Internal Affairs Zakharchenko, this person allegedly took the ‘black hundred’ out of Kyiv, destroyed their weapons and jettisoned them, although he was on Maidan together with us," the Prosecutor General said.

He also informed that the cases against 19 Berkut officers involved in Maidan shootings have been sent to court, and six of the officers involved have been detained. A total of 13 more cases are undergoing pretrial investigation, and five of the officers involved have been detained. It is expected that these cases will be sent to court no later than this autumn.

Another 36 officers are on the wanted list and will be convicted in absentia. The Prosecutor General expects the court hearings to be scheduled this year.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda