Red Cross Committee doctor tells how he was shot during Berkut trial

Roman Kotlyarevsky, the volunteer of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was questioned at the Sviatoshynsky District Court in Kyiv in criminal proceeding against five former officers of the Berkut special riot police force on August 4.

The doctor told he was injured approximately at 9:30 a.m. between ‘Ukraine’ hotel and ‘Khreschatyk’ metro station exit, going up, on the right side of ‘Ukraine’ hotel, in the middle of the sidewalk, Ukrinform news agency reports.

Kotlyarevsky said he was not a ballistic expert, but he was convinced he had been shot from the ‘Arcada’ bank area.

The volunteer also noted that during the tragic events on Maidan he was wearing orange jacket with reflective stripes and red crosses, blue jeans, and there was a white helmet with red crosses on his head. He was carrying a black backpack with first-aid material and medicines.

“It is the uniform of the ‘Ukrainian Red Cross’ rapid response team. One of the protesters told doctors to go to the wounded in order to provide them with medical care, while saying that the police presumably would not shoot them,” he said.

As reported, the trial of former officers of the Berkut special riot police force Pavlo Abroskin, Serhiy Zinchenko, Oleksandr  Marynchenko, Serhiy Tamtura and Oleh Yanishevsky began on May 17.

They are accused of shooting Euromaidan activists on the Instytutska Street on February, 2014.