Assault rifles, used to kill three Euromaidan activists, identified

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine identified assault rifles, which, according to the investigation, were used to kill three Euromaidan activists on February 20, 2014.

As Liga Ukrainian news portal reports, prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office Roman Psiuk told journalists about this on June 21, during the break of the court hearing on the case over murder of 48 activists of the Revolution of Dignity.

According to him, those rifles belonged to former officers of the Berkut riot police force Oleksandr Zinchenko and Pavlo Abroskin, the defendants in the case.

“As for the defendants, specific bullets were found in the bodies of the victims and we have 100% identity proof that these bullets were fired from rifles of Zinchenko and Abroskin. Abroskin killed two people and wounded two people, a total of four bullets in the bodies. Zinchenko killed one person,” he said.

However, according to Psiuk, about 70% of the killed Euromaidan activists had penetrating wounds. Therefore, it is virtually impossible to recognize whom exactly the weapon belonged to, judging by a bullet.

Psiuk also said that assault rifles of Berkut officers, including Abroskina and Zinchenko, had been found in one of the ponds of Holosiyivsky district in Kyiv.

January 26, the case of five former officers of the Berkut riot police force, Pavlo Abroskin and Serhiy Zinchenko, suspected into killing 48 Maidan activists, deputy commander of Berkut regiment Oleh Yanishevsky and his two subordinates, was sent to the court. The trial is ongoing.

Former officers of the Berkut riot police force, who are accused of murder of Maidan activists, do not admit their guilty and deny their involvement in the killings on Maidan.