
The Kyiv prosecutor's office announced the wanted leader of the public organization "Brotherhood" by Dmitry Korchinsky. He is accused of organizing the mass riots on December 1 near the building of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. This was stated at a press conference by the deputy prosecutor of the city Sergey Sofiev, UNIAN reports .
The prosecutor’s office intends to petition in court about the arrest of Korchinsky. "Now measures are being taken to detain and conduct investigative actions with him," Sofiev said. He also said that on Thursday two more participants in these events were detained.
Meanwhile, TSN reports with reference to "reliable sources" that Korchinsky went abroad, allegedly to Russia. The politician himself denied this information on his Facebook.
On December 1, it was Taran Bulldozer of police barriers near the building of the President of Ukraine on Bankovaya Street, throwing stones into the heads of law enforcement officers, smoke grenades and firezers became the main basis for the forceful acceleration of the borders gathered at the Euromaidan.
The offenders hacked heavy turnstiles and, using weapons, stones and other objects, attacked representatives of law enforcement, said in an official message. As a result of the clashes , 160 law enforcement officials were injured . More than 90 law enforcement officers were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity after protest in Kyiv, said Anna Kovalenko, head of the Central Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. According to her, 91 people were hospitalized in total, patients sought medical help due to various injuries - from light and medium to severe traumatic brain.
Also, 165 injured protesters held in the center of the capital turned to the doctors of emergency medical teams. 109 people are hospitalized.
On Thursday, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev decided toarrest for two months all nine detained on suspicion of organizing clashes with the police during street protests on December 1. The judges took into account the severity of the crime and the social danger of Article 294 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (the organization of mass riots) suspected of which they pass. This article provides for the punishment of up to eight years in prison. Also, the arrested are suspected of committing crimes provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("Resistance to the representative of the law enforcement agency"), part 2 of Article 345 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("Intentional infliction of bodily injuries to an employee of law enforcement agencies") and Article 348 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("Angry of a law enforcement officer").
One of the accused is Yaroslav Protulenko. According to the investigation, he participated in a fight at the presidential administration building, attacked police officers and had a knife and an explosion. According to investigators, Prutulenko acted as part of a group of 300-500 people who beat 70 law enforcement officials.
Officially, the names of the detainees who appeared before the court were not called. Meanwhile, the journalist of Gromadske TV Dmitry GNAP, who made a broadcast from the court building, said that Yaroslav Prutulenko, Alexander Ostashchenko, Yegor Pravir, Vladislav Zagolovka, as well as people named Garaguts, Cherepko and Yuzhnenko, said on the list.
Earlier, among the "initiators of the riots" in Kyiv, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine called the leader of the Freedom party Igor Miroshnichenko, as well as Andrei Feschuk and members of the Brotherhood organization under the leadership of Korchinsky. At the same time, the police reported that he himself has no suspect status and is not among the unnamed nine detainees.