The Kyiv district court of Simferopol another two months extended the arrest of Alexander Kostenko, accused of endangering the lives of employees of "Berkut" on the Maidan in the past year, said the Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea Natalia Polonskaya, who himself is the Prosecutor in the case.

Kostenko was placed behind bars in February of the current year. On the assumption of the investigation, He is in the process of riots in Kiev in February 2014 caused the injury and the injured employee of the Crimean special forces " Berkut ". He provided without legislative authorization act illegally kept at the place of residence rifled barrel.

"according to my petition deadline extended by two months at the time of the trial," said Polonskaya correspondents.

She said that on the last working day of the week within the preliminary hearing the court issued a ruling on the merits.

"The proceedings in the presence of the media for the implementation of the principle of openness on April 20 eleven o'clock in the afternoon (GMT)," said Polonskaya.

According to the Prosecutor, Kostenko was captured within the Crimea, He is a citizen of the Russian Federation, because in January this year, has received a Russian passport.

Polonskaya said that the Prosecutor's office wants to ask for punishment, appropriate and proportionate - present imprisonment.

at the same time, According to the lawyer suspected of guilt does not recognize.

at the end of February 2014, in Ukraine there was a coup, fresh authorities placed the responsibility for all incidents occurred in the process of Euromaidan, the past leaders of the country. Were criminal cases relative to the number of bureaucrats, and the riot police "Berkut" was dissolved.

The epicenter of the riots was Kiev's main square Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square), which was first occupied by supporters of European integration, and later became a place of confrontation between the security forces and radicals. The clashes, during which the radicals many times used small arms and Molotov cocktails, dozens of human lives, as well as among them, from the composition of the Crimean special forces "Berkut" territorial and internal troops.

Crimea and located on the Crimean Peninsula Sevastopol became the Russian regions after the referendum on 16 March 2014, when more than 96% voted for reaching these areas from Ukraine and reunification with Russia. The referendum was a reaction to the coup in Kiev on 22 February.

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