The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema tried to convince to speed up the proceedings of the Odessa event on may 2, when a fire in the House of trade unions lost their lives 48 people and more than 200 were injured.

The Minister reminded that according to the results of an internal review, it was decided to release from office and transferred to the new work of the Prosecutor of the Odessa area, almost all of his deputies, and a number of heads of structural departments.

" in this context would wish to draw attention to the need for expeditious legal procedural decisions in criminal proceedings on the facts of the tragic events in Odessa in the beginning of may of current year ", - quotes the first day weekend Yarema Agency UNIAN.

according to official data, in the House of trade unions lost their lives 48 people, but the people's choice of the Odessa regional Council Vadim Savenko said that the authorities hide the true data: according to him, lost his life 116 people.

The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said that Kiev inhibits the proceedings of the tragedy in Odessa and other cases of human rights violations in Ukraine.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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