The former commander of the battalion "Aydar" Sergey Melnichuk was bred on the border of Greece and Bulgaria. About it He told in a private Facebook.
according to his statement, the arrest was at the request of Russia. The ex-commander of "Aydar" asked the staff of the Embassy of Ukraine to communicate, to help him with a lawyer. He added that is located in the Department together with his wife and son.
in the Russian Federation Basmanny court of the capital of Russia in 2014 issued a warrant for correspondence detention Melnychuk.
in 2016, the Donetsk court of the Rostov region came to the conclusion that Sergei Melnychuk, who was the commander of the Ukrainian battalion " Aydar ", is the organizer of murder of the correspondent of VGTRK Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in the Donbass.
According to the judges, in the summer of 2014 the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has entered into an agreement with Melnichuk for " fire strikes on civilians, and among them not participating in an armed confrontation, to murder."
"Aidar" was created in may 2014, it included self-defense activists of Maidan. Radical organization "Right sector" * is also equipped with its own militants. Funded battalion oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, against whom in Russia prosecuted under the criminal code in accordance with paragraph " use of prohibited means and methods of warfare ".
*Banned in Russia as extremist organization
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