The Investigative Committee published a video made by the police shortly before the assault on the apartment of a resident of Yekaterinburg Vladimir Taushankov, during which he was shot by fighters of the Sobr. Attention was drawn to her chief editor Znak.com Dmitry Korzev.
The video was shot on a mobile phone of one of the police officers. It shows how several men are trying to get into the apartment of the deceased - they demand to open the door and pull the handle. Moreover, none of them is dressed in the form of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At some point, Taushankov sprays a pepper cylinder in them.

A screenshot from a video published by the Investigative Committee.
The press release also claims that Taushankov provoked the fighters of the Sobr to the video for the use of weapons, since he had an “outbreak of aggression” who came after the video and he brought a knife over his head, trying to hit one of the National Guards. This differs from the version that the National Guard itself cited: the department first claimed that the fighters began to shoot, since Taushankov had a “object similar to a machine gun”, and then that he had a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his hands. ”
Later, on June 4, E1.ru published testimonies of the head of the police department No. 2 of Yekaterinburg Alexander Gorin, who arrived at the scene before the assault. The policeman told the investigation that the Sobr began to shoot at Taushankov, since he "jumped out at the collections with two knives."

At the same time, the employee also said that the police did not expect that "he would resist the staff of the assembly, would begin to shoot from the rifle and rush with the knife at the employee of the Russian Guard."
Due to the spraying of the spray can, the UK opened a criminal case on the application of violence to a representative of the authorities. The victim of the operative claims to go into the apartment and saw Taushankov with a kitchen knife in his right hand and a gas can - in the left. At first, Uralets hid from the employee in the room, and then went out and began to step on him with a knife, refusing to leave the weapon. Then, according to the policeman, he ran out the door.
“He began to open the door in our direction and wave a knife through the ajar door,” says the employee. When the policeman looked out the door again, Taushankov sprayed his gas in his face.
The Urals Vladimir Taushankov shot the fighters of the Sobr on the night of June on June 1 in their own apartment. According to investigators, he is a construction store, taking out several rolls of wallpaper in an amount of eight thousand rubles. After that, Taushankov had a skirmish with two men who began to pursue him. In the end, he ran home and locked himself in the apartment; The security forces decided to take her storm.
The witness of the assault was Taushankov’s father, who was in the apartment with him. The man claims that his son did not direct the weapons to the security forces, and they opened the fire before entering the apartment. In the photographs of the doors published by local publications, several holes similar to bullet are visible.
Updated at 23:08. The news is complemented by the testimony of Gorin.