Three ex-Berkut police officers arrested in Kharkiv, suspected of shooting Maidan activists – PGO
Employees of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) in cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have carried out an operation in Kharkiv to arrest three former Berkut special police force officers who are suspected of shooting Maidan activists during a rally in Kyiv on February 18, 2014.
"Today, the PGO and the SBU carried out a joint special operation. Three Berkut police officers have been detained. Two of them led different units of Berkut," Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin said in Kyiv on Tuesday.
Shokin added that all three of the detained held senior posts within Kharkiv police.
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