Four former employees of the former Berkut special police unit have been announced suspicion of the involvement in the events during the Revolution of Dignity, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported.

According to the report, two commanders of divisions and two fighters of the special police regiment of the main police department in Kyiv (former employees of the Berkut riot police) have been charged under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 365, Part 1 of Article 366, and Part 2 of Article 384 of the Criminal Code. They are suspected of abusing power and illegally detaining and beating activists of the Automaidan social movement in the early hours of January 23, 2014 on the Schorsa Street and Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv.

In addition, Berkut officers are charged with forgery of their reports and providing false testimony which accused the activists of serious crimes for which they were arrested and put in custody.

The press service said that these former Berkut officers successfully passed re-certification, and two of them were promoted, becoming squad leaders.

The Prosecutor General's Office was informed that the court made a request to suspend these police officers from their posts and put them under house arrest. The pre-trial investigation continues.

As reported, Ukraine's PGO had been investigating a criminal case on mass killings of people in Kyiv during February 18-20. As a part of the investigation, a number of Berkut special task force representatives, in particular, a company commander and two more policemen were arrested; they were summoned to court.

All the three were put in custody, however, later Pechersky District Court changed the restriction measure to home arrest for Dmytro Sadovnyk, the former special task force company commander of Berkut police special task force regiment in Kyiv police department. Thereafter, Sadovnyk disappeared and is now wanted by law enforcers.

Two other Berkut policemen Serhiy Zinchenko and Pavlo Ambroskin, who are accused of killing Euromaidan activists Ambroskin and Zinchenko, remain under arrest.