The bird is not sorry

I.O. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov signed an order "On the elimination of special civil security police units" Berkut ". He reported this on his Facebook page. The official promised to state details at a briefing on Wednesday.

On Monday, two draft decisions on the liquidation of Berkut were made to the Verkhovna Rada. It was originally reported that they would be considered on the same day, but then the speaker Alexander Turchinov said that the discussion of the documents was postponed to Tuesday. He explained that this was done at the request of Avakov. Avakov needs time to “approach this issue more systematically,” Turchinov explained.

“The fact that such a unit will no longer happen is understandable,” the speaker also remarked. “Another question is that someone should fulfill these functions is not the functions of killing people, but the functions to protect people, struggling with especially dangerous criminals.”

Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the consideration of draft decisions was not reported.

During the Ukrainian revolution, the special forces of the Berkut participated in the beating and murders of protesting citizens.

"Golden Eagle" on Grushevsky Street in Kyiv. Photo: Yu. Timofeev/Grani.ru

After overthrowing the Viktor Yanukovych regime, many Berkutians began to leave Ukraine. On February 22, the Berkut VK community published a request to the inhabitants of Russia and Belarus to help fugitive security forces with housing. “If there are in the villages of Russia, Belarus is empty houses or a place where you can hide, write to the administrator,” the Berkutians asked. "There are many women with children, the situation is critical, it is necessary to take out children and women!" - they wrote.

On the morning of February 23, the Russian pro -government political strategist Alexander Tukaev turned to the governor of the Astrakhan region Alexander Zhilkin and his deputy Konstantin Markelov with the question "Berkut fighters" in social networks ask for political asylum in Russia and Belarus.

Zhilkin replied: "Invite them officially, take and place them. Contact me, I information."

On Tuesday, the leader of “Fair Russia” Sergey Mironov proposed the employment of all Berkut special forces in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Yanukovych betrayed his people,” Mironov said. “But listen: the president who watched his palace from the windows of his palace how they kill the guys from Berkut without weapons and didn’t do anything for this - it’s just not a manly way, it’s just mean. ... Let’s turn to the country's leadership: Let everyone from the Berkut will provide work today in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Mironov also expressed concerns that Berkutovtsev and their families could be persecuted in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Avakov said on February 25 that 35 special forces of the Kyiv Berkut fled from the base in the capital with weapons. When exactly and where the security forces disappeared and how many weapons were captured with them, the acting The minister was difficult to answer. He added that the department is going to solve the problem in the next day or two.