Kyiv Berkut unit killed 39 unarmed protesters on Instytutska Street on Feb 20, 2014 - PGO
Investigators believe that members of the Berkut special task force were involved in the shooting of protesters during the Revolution of Dignity on February 20, 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) has said.
"The results of the investigation prove that Kyiv-based Berkut special task policemen, who are suspected of being accomplices of this crime, used firearms against protestors," head of the Special Investigations Unit of the Main Investigation Department of the PGO Serhiy Horbatiuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.
He said that members of the unit are suspected of killing of 39 protestors Instytutska Street.
"None of them [protesters] were armed or threatened the lives of the law enforces," he said.
"Also, fresh data of the investigation confirms this unit's involvement in committing another seven murders and 48 gun shot wounds on the same day on Instytutska Street," Horbatiuk added.
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