Translated material
Goodbye, brother!
“Forest brothers” were separated - a special operation to detain a Primorsky gang hunting for police officers, completed. Two criminals - dead, two - detained, two - surrendered themselves.
The armed outfits of police officers check documents from drivers during the operation to capture bandits.
Photo: Vasily Fedorchenko / ITAR-TASS
Three hundreds of security forces participating in the special operation, this morning, to surround the gang of “police hunters” in the center of Ussuriysk. The criminals barricaded in the 73rd house on Timiryazev Street. In response to the proposal to surrender - they opened fire. Two bandits died in a shootout - Andrei Sukhorada and Alexander Sweet.
The investigation has yet to find out the circumstances of the death of criminals - whether they were killed during the assault or committed suicide.
Another member of the group - Vladimir Ilyutikov - decided to surrender voluntarily. Now the most conscious of the “forest brothers” is actively cooperating with law enforcement agencies. However, according to representatives of the Investigative Committee, they will not allow "to shift the guilt for the crimes committed on the dead member of the gang, everyone will answer merits."
By the way, it is not very clear where the Ilyutikov came from among the criminals. Previously, only Roman Muromtsev, Alexander School, Alexander Kovtun, Andrei Sukhorada and Roman Savchenko appeared as members of the gang. In recent media reports, the list of criminals was replenished with another name - Maxim Kirilov. There was no question of Ilyutikov at all.
As for Roman Muromtsev, his involvement in attacks officially refuted the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office on June 10. The accusations were removed after the material published in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. The mother of the novel, Valentina Muromtseva, said that the son is not at all hidden in the forests, but lives calmly in Vladivostok. “No rum is the leader of the gang! Normal, calm, good boy! - said Muromtseva, adding. - The son does not go outside - he is afraid that he will be shot right away! "
The last suspect, Alexander Kovtun, spent quite a long time in the house alone, already without “brothers”, and, in the end, moved from the captured building to the investigative department. At first, he refused to go out and insisted at a meeting with his mother and lawyer. When they arrived at the place, Kovtun surrendered to the police after short negotiations.
Earlier, the detention of two of the six members of the group was reported. On the night of June 9 to 10, in the area of the village of Mikhailovka, the security forces tied the 18-year-old Roman Savchenko. The name of the second detainee is not called.
“Hunters for police officers,” or “forest brothers”, as they were called in the media, managed to become famous in two weeks with their attacks on law enforcement officers of Primorye.
According to the senior assistant to the head of the SCP SU on Primorye Aurora Roman, the special operation to detain the dangerous armed gang is completed.