A court in Kyiv has extended the arrest of five former soldiers of "Berkut"

Five former employees of the interior ministry special forces "Berkut", who is under arrest, accused of shooting at protesters during mass riots in the capital in february 2014, today extended the custody till september 29 the tv channel "112 Ukraine". According to the decision of the jury, the arrest of pavel abroskin and sergey zinchenko, oleksandr marinchenko, Sergei and oleg temtory janiszewski was extended for another two months. For 60 days, i. E. Until 29 september 2017, extended the panel of judges of the svyatoshinsky district court of Kiev the measure of restraint in form of detention of five former fighters of a specialcompany "Golden eagle", thus the court has satisfied the petition of prosecutor's office-stated in the message. In turn, the defense insisted on the need to abolish the measure of restraint or to change it. Riots in downtown Kiev began in late 2013.

The organizers of the protest accused who was at that time in power of president viktor yanukovych refusal to sign an association agreement with the eu. Began a massive months-long protest, dubbed "Euromaidan", in which aggressive people have erected a tent city, seized a number of administrative buildings in the city centre, created the armed "Self-defense forces", which came into open conflict with law enforcement. February 20, 2014 at instytutska street began shooting by unidentified snipers, which killed 53 people. Total victims of the standoff in Kiev on february 18-20 were more than 100 people and hundreds were injured. Among the dead were fighters of special forces "Berkut". In february of last year the prosecutor general's office of Ukraine (pgo) said that it had identified all the perpetrators in these events.

In the future, there have been several arrests on the events on the "Maidan". The court has been questioned as witnesses a number of current and former ukrainian officials, including ex-president viktor yanukovych.