Сourt sentences five Berkut officers in Maidan shootings case
Pravda Ukraine
On 18 October, Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi District Court announced a decision in the case of the shooting of protesters on Instytutska Street in the Ukrainian capital in February 2014.
Source: Suspilne
Details: There are five accused Berkut fighters in the case: Pavlo Abroskin, Serhii Zinchenko, Oleksandr Marynchenko, Serhii Tamtura and deputy regiment commander Oleh Yanishevskyi. The court acquitted two of them and convicted three, but they are currently in Russia.
The presiding judge, Serhii Diachuk, read out the verdict.
Oleh Yanishevskyi faces a life sentence and is stripped of all his titles and ranks.
Special Forces officer Pavlo Abroskin was sentenced to 15 years behind bars, with deprivation of the right to hold any office for three years.
Serhii Zinchenko is sentenced to 15 years, with deprivation of the right to hold a position for three years; he is also stripped of his rank.
However, these three Berkut soldiers were released from custody in December 2019 as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia.
The court acquitted two other Berkut soldiers who remained in Ukraine, namely Serhii Tamtura and Oleksandr Marinchenko.
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