The Sviatoshyn District Court in Kyiv sentenced five former Berkut officers for the Feb 20, 2014 shootings on Instytutska Street that killed 48 people during Euromaidan protests. Deputy commander Oleh Yanishevsky was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia, Pavel Abroskin and Serhiy Zinchenko received 15-year sentences, Oleksandr Marynchenko got 5 years, and Serhiy Tamtura was acquitted.
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The Sviatoshyn District Court in Kyiv has handed down prison sentences to five former Berkut members, three in absentia, in the case of the shootings on Instytutska Street on Feb. 20, 2014, when 48 people were killed.
The Berkut was a special police (anti-riot) unit that was part of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Yanishevsky, Abroskin and Zinchenko were sentenced in absentia as they had been released from custody in December 2019 as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia, and then fled the country.
Marynchenko was found guilty of abuse of power and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but had already served 5 years in pre-trial detention.
Tamtura was acquitted by the court.
The court issued a verdict in the Feb. 20, 2014 murder trial on Oct. 18, 2023
Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi District Court announced a decision in the case of the shooting of protesters on Instytutska Street in February 2014, sentencing five Berkut officers
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