Sadovnyk gives orders to former Berkut officers during shootings on Maidan – PGO
Oleksiy Donsky, the senior prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), has stated that there are evidence that Ex–Berkut commander Dmytro Sadovnyk gave instructions to former Berkut special police force officers Serviy Zinchenko and Pavko Abroskin.
This is reported by the Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) online newspaper with reference to Hromadske.tv.
“There are videos showing that Sadovnyk guides their actions. He gives orders how they should retreat and what positions they should strengthen. Those were certainly not chaotic actions. Sadovnyk guided their actions since he had appeared there,” Donsky commented.
He also noted that more than enough evidence had been already collected, but the investigation lost much time due to the fact that Sadovnyk had fled. At that stage, the evidence base was built through him.
Earlier, Donsky said in the interview with Radio Liberty that the PGO had established telephone numbers of Russian mobile operators, which Yanukovych constantly contacted directly during the mass murders on the Independence Square in Kyiv and during his escape from Ukraine. Therefore, the PGO found that users of those numbers were relevant to the Russia’s security services.
As a reminder, Zinchenko and Abroskin have been staying in the Kyiv remand prison for 19 months already. The former Berkut special police force officers are accused of killing 39 Euromaidan activists.
