On March 21, passengers of train 65 Moscow-Kishinev were feared of people in the uniform of the Ukrainian Rebel Army who came into the carriages and started to ‘check documents’ when the train stopped at the Vinnytsia railway station. At the same time passengers who produced Russian passports were forced to hand over money and gold jewelries. Simultaneously with the robbery the men addressed to the passengers with ‘political educational’ speeches. Surprisingly, the attempt to apply to police failed. They refused to register the complaints,’ the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports on March 24.
The Ukrainian authorities refute the Russian Ministry’s information.
‘The comments of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are astonishing at least, as they present the situation upside down. It’s an unconcealed misinformation. If the diplomats think that a police squad in uniform with identification markings is the Ukrainian Rebel Army, I have no comment,’ the UNIAN quotes Evgeny Perebynis, the director of the informational policy department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The UNIAN reports that the police are investigating the theft of money from a passenger in the Moscow-Kishinev train. The police told the UNIAN that theygot a signal about a money theft from a female passenger who was going to funeral and got out of the train in Zhmerynka station.
‘Because of the signal about the theft, at the Vinnytsia station three policemen working in the Criminal Investigation Department entered the carriage where the woman travelled so that she had no need to get out and could go further to her destination point. They questioned her and filled in all the procedural documents while the train moved from Vinnytsia to Zhmerynka where she got out,’ the press-service of the Ministry told the UNIAN.
The UNIAN also specifies that in the Ministry they stressed that fact that the victim did not notice the loss of money at once. ‘It was an ordinary theft, not a robbery,’ say they in the Ministry and add that a legal case has been launched.
In Zaporozhye “Maydan samooborona” has committed an assault on participators of pro-Russian rally. Zaporozhye, 24/03/2014
Rally with a Russian flag was assaulted in Zaporozhye; cars were damaged, there were injured persons. “Den. Zaporozhye” daily informs about it. The organizers call this rally “Friendship Rally from Melitopol to Zaporozhye”.
“Several dozen members of so called “Euromaydam samooborona” (community defence volunteers) armed with hammers, axes and spades as well as with stones, bars, sticks and bottles assaulted Melitopol residents who went to Zaporozhye to participate in an event of the South-East People’s Front arranged by Slavianskaya Gvardiya non-government organization,” the daily reports. When the rally participators approached a ring road in the area of ZAZ automobile plant they were assaulted by samooborona extremists who started to crash windscreens and side windows of the cars, break flags and mirrors, attack people sitting in the cars.
At the same time a correspondent of “Vesti” from Zaporozhye has described this incident in another way. According to him, a car convoy with flags of the Russian Federation went from Melitopol to the pro-Russian meeting. Samooborona members tried to search the cars. However, one of the convoy participators stepped down the gas pedal and ran into one of the activists. That activist was hospitalized because of a broken leg. A scuffle began after this.
Alexandr Muzychko, head of “Right Sector” in West Ukraine, has been killed. Rovno, 25/03/2014
Deputy Oles Boniy informed about a murder of activist of “Right Sector” nicknamed Sashko Bily in Rovno (real name is Alexandr Muzychko). The politician wrote about it on his page in Facebook.
It was reported just now that Sashko Bily (Alexandr Muzychko) was killed in Kiev. Two automobiles cut up his car, pulled out, put into their car. Then threw onto the ground – hands behind the back in handcuffs, two shots to the heart”, Doniy reported.
Later “Vse” Rovno website relying on information from its own sources reported that a tragedy took place this night in “Tree Karasia” coffee bar located near Sarny and Zhytin ring roads.
Allegedly unknown people arranged shooting resulting in death of Alexandr Muzychko.
“His body is now in several dozen meters from the coffee bar. Currently an operational and investigation group is working at the crime scene,” the website reports.
According to information, several people who were in the coffee bar were also kidnapped.
“Right Sector” activist Yaroslav Granitny confirmed information about murder to “ChaRivne” mass medium. He reported that he saw the body. Clothes were torn on it.
“Those who killed him ensured that he had not a bulletproof vest on and then shot to his heart,” Granitny said.
According to him, no one else was killed. However, there were three fighters of “Right Sector” and two civilians among the kidnapped. Head of the municipal employment centre Vladimir Datsenko was among them.
Priest of Cherkassy episcopate has received a letter with threats. Cherkassy Region, 25/03/2014
Non-registered National Socialist Working Party of Ukraine sent a letter to the address of a representative of the Ukraine autocephalous orthodox church (of Cherkassy episcopate) hegumen Aleksandr Shirokov. Ukrainian radicals demanded from the authoritative priest to stop “any pro-Moscow hostile propaganda”. According to a proclamation of National Socialist Working Party of Ukraine, in the event that the churchman does not listen to the radical’s threats comprehensive measures of physical and annihilating nature will be applied in regard to him and his family. Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation informs about it.
Chairman of “Svoboda” regional organization of Bakhmach city has received a severe beating. Chernigov Region, 25/03/2014
On 22 March 2014 chairman of “Svoboda” regional organization of Bakhmach city Vinogradov received a severe beating in Chernigov Region. An assaulter attacked him right in the premise where Vinogradov intended to perform private medical examination for him. “Svoboda” press-service reports about it. It is commonly known that Mikhail Vinogradov is one of the doctors of the Medical Hundred and Military Hospital at Maydan, a famous homeopathic physician. Soon he is to assume an office of the head of the regional state administration of Bakhmach.
Attempt on Mikhail Vinogradov has being investigated by an investigating group from the local offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Security Service of Ukraine. Source: http://www.gorod.cn.ua/print/news_53482.html
A Maydan activist has been beaten. Kiev Region, 25/03/2014
Deputy of the city council of Vishnevoe Yury Lesnitchiy was beaten at night near his house in Vishnevoe. His leg is broken, a suspected case of a broken hand, the area of kidneys and spine is beaten, things are stolen.
Lesnitchiy connects it with his political and public activity.
He told to “Ukrainskaya Pravda” by phone that approximately at 12:20 he parked his car near his house and got out of it with a bag in one hand and his daughter’s baby stuff in the other one. At once two young men with metal bars ran up to him.
“They obviously waited for me… They started to beat me, I struggled… They knocked me down, broke my leg, beat me on the ground, I hid behind my hand, it is suspected that my hand is broken in three points”, Vishnevoe deputy told.
They beat me in the kidney area, spine area… I cannot get in my feet… Now I am going to the 12th hospital (in Kiev), to Bogomolets, – probably, they will operate on my leg”, he added.
They also stole from Lesnitchiy’s bag a laptop and documents, although he threw the bag into bushes while struggling.
The victim does not remember whether the assaulters said anything, because everything happened very quickly.
“Most probably, it is connected with my political activity, everything headed in that direction, I was threatened… Both by bureaucrats from the city hall and by the mayor and developers and the former deputy mayor who was sentenced to 5 years for bribe – and that one threw through people”, Lesnitchiy said.
He also made the point that he is a representative of Anti-corruption Committee of Maydan and carried out a fight with Vishnevoe “Regionnairs” and illegal real estate development as well as took participation in picketing of the house of ex-head of Kiev Region with a demand of purging.
“I have got an impression that it was sponsored. Even policemen said that a robbery did not work that way… Cameras function in our yard, we will try to find this video. Police allegedly keeps it under control”, Lesnitchiy said.
“I stayed alive by some miracle. Now I am in terror of my family. I have a little daughter. We will ask for guarding. In fact, earlier I worked on a prosecutor’s office”, he confided.
Lesnitchiy also recalled that two weeks ago his father-in-law’s apartment where he lives was ransacked.
“There are facts of pressure on other deputies; nuts on wheels of one deputy’s car were screwed loose”, he added.
In Kiev the Department for Organized Crime Control officers have seized a gang of armed Automaydan participators. Kiev, 25/03/2014
Officers of the Department for Organized Crime Control and Dneprovskoe District Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine have seized a criminal group with arsenal of weapons in Gidropark in the capital city. According to the KV’s sources in law enforcement bodies, it is referred to some Automaydan wing members of which refused to lay down firearms and lived on robberies. As it has been known from sources in law enforcement bodies, the group includes 9 men: Roman M., Arsen K., Vladislav S., Vitaly K., Yury S., Andrey L., Sergey K., Sergey D., and Aleksandr D. Two of them have already been in the wanted list of law enforcement authorities. Crime associates hid out in a private house located not far from Berezka Lake. Police went out to seize them, because of information sent to the agency that these persons held hostages there. In the course of investigating actions two Kalashnikovs with live cartridges, 7 pistols, air weapon, knives, smoke boxes, and Molotov cocktails were exempted from them. Besides that, the men were equipped with radio sets, camouflage clothing and facilities for active protection.
According to the “KV” mass medium’s sources in law enforcement bodies, this armed group was a part of that Automaydan wing by which Andrey Dzindzia, a journalist of the “Road Control”, managed. “According to preliminary information, the law-breakers committed grave crimes. Many office machines, professional photo camera and other expensive things origin of which yet to be determined were among exempted possessions”, the source reported.
In accordance with “KV”, in the course of seizure of the organized criminal group in Gidropark a corpse of a 49 years old man was found not far from the “hideout” of the armed revolutionaries. It turned out to be a body of Nazarov Vladimir Anatolyevich, date of birth 16/11/1964. According to preliminary information, he was killed by two shots from traumatic weapon. The law enforcement authorities have also a theory that the crime partners fired at him in the course of internal squabbles. They say that they pulled the man away and even did not know that he was not alive.
In Sevastopol a judicial dispute about an apartment had being settled by its illegal seizure. Sevastopol, 25/03/2014
On 21 March in Sevastopol a group of people armed with sticks and shields in camouflage uniform led by Cossack ataman Vyacheslav Bebnev, deputy of Inkerman city council, broke in the apartment of a daughter of deputy of the municipal council Nina Prudnikova. People with symbols of Russian Block were seen among the persons who broke in. “Korrespondent.Net” information agency reports about it.
The assaulting people smashed the door into the apartment open, beat Nina Prudnikova’s husband Viktor as well as inflicted beatings on their 20 years old daughter, “Korrespondent.Net” quotes “Golos Sevastopolya”.
According to “Korrespondent.Net”, 12 thousand dollars, an officially registered minor calibre pistol were stolen in the course of assault as well as great harm was inflicted on private property which the broken-in people threw out into the street.
As “sevas.ua” portal reports, a forceful conflict between relatives of the deputy and “samooborona activists” led by ataman of “Rus” Sevastopol Cossack Union Vyacheslav Bebnev took place in the disputed apartment in Parshin street in which a daughter of Sevastopol Legislative Assembly deputy Nina Prudnikova lives. Nina Prudnikova and Vyacheslav Bebnev told their stories as for the above mentioned events to our information agency on 25 March.
According to Nina Prudnikova, a criminal case was initiated in regard to the ataman, beatings inflicted on her daughter were documented, investigation is being performed, “sevas.ua” reports.
In his turn, as “sevas.ua” informs, ataman Vyacheslav Bebnev told that one of their Cossacks who won several actions against the Prudnikovs is registered in this apartment, but they prevented from his settling in. “That day he invited all of us to visit him. We have got a disc grinder as we cut off locks from gates of Ukrainian military units. We said to him: “Pasha, if it is your apartment then cut off the lock and come in.” He came in there with his mother, but there were another person’s things there. He began to bring them out to the yard. But Prudnikova with her husband and daughters appeared and they started to conflict,” the ataman made the point.
A young man was beaten to death in the center of Kyiv. Kyiv, 25.03.2014
Overnight into March 25 unknown people beat to death 21 -year-old Timofey Stebliy, Maidan activist, with bats in the center of Kiev. It is reported by the Euromaidan activist Yuri Andreyev .
“In the center of Kyiv 21 -year-old Timofey Stebliy, Maidan activist, was beaten to death by unknown people. The guy was beaten with baseball bats by men wearing camouflage, with masks on their faces. The murder took place right at the barricades. Pointedly and cynically” - Mr. Andreev writes on his Facebook page.
Source: http://nbnews.com.ua/ru/news/116555/
In Odessa “Right Sector” activists were beaten, and then an attempt to kidnap them took place. Odessa, 26.03.2014
Monday evening a “Right Sector” activist was attacked in Odessa, then at night armed people tried to thrust some activists into a car without license plates. The parties to the conflict informed the site «048.ua» about that.
According to them, in the evening of March 24 a conflict between a Euromaidan activist distributing leaflets in Preobrazhenskaya street and a group of persons resembling drug addicts in appearance took place.
One of the representatives of that group (probably an “Anti-Maidan” participant) started to insult the girl using dirty words, a barney started.
At the same time one of the “Right Sector” leaders Sergey was passing along Deribasovskaya street. He came to the defense of the girl. One of the attackers beat his face with an iron object (possibly a knuckle duster) for that.
Passers-by came to the rescue of the activist and having taken two of the attackers in turned them to the police unit who appeared to be nearby but did not intervene in the conflict.
Sergey was taken to the hospital by an ambulance and the injured girl and a number of activists headed to the Primorsky District Department of Internal Affairs to file reports about the attack.
At the same time, according to the witnesses, “Anti-Maidan” activists began to gather at the District Department.
They demanded that the Euromaidan activists call the reports off.
Then according to the “Right Sector” representatives the Public Security chief of the Head Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Odessa region Dmitry Fuchedzhi “offered the “Right Sector” activists to sign a “non-aggression pact” with “Anti-Maidan” activists”.
The “Right Sector” rejected the offer.
Finally around midnight a gray “Daewoo Lanos” with no number plates started to pursue two “Right Sector” representatives going home from the District Department.
People sitting in it were wearing camouflage and masks, and they were carrying guns. They tried to huddle the activists into the car, but the latter managed to escape
Source: http://www.048.ua/news/502316
In Kharkiv a woman was beaten for a St. George Ribbon and the Russian language. Kharkiv, 26.03.2014
In Kharkiv a case of beating for wearing a St. George Ribbons and explanations in Russian in response to a request (in Ukrainian) to show the way to the Dovzhenko cinema in August 23 Street was recorded. August 23 is the day of Kharkiv liberation from Nazi occupation. It was reported by the «REX» news agency with reference to Gennady Makarov, the head of the Kharkov association "For cultural and linguistic equality", the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Russian organizations of Eastern Ukraine “Russian Veche”.
Gennady Makarov: "The Call about this vile deed was received a week ago at a meeting in Kharkiv on March 16, and yesterday I contacted with the woman who suffered the neo-Nazi actions. Her name is Elena, she is 40 years old, on March 9 at 8.20 she got off the bus in August 23 street. I have Elena’s complete personal details and I will give this information to the OSCE representatives who are still in Ukraine. Elena had a St. George Ribbon attached to her chest. A tall young man about 30 years old approached her he asked her how to get to the Dovzhenko cinema in Halych dialect as it seemed to her. She began to answer in Russian showing the cinema. Here the young man sharply hit her chest and shouted in Ukrainian: “Bitch, study Ukrainian language”. She maintained her footing, but she had darkened vision and with the help of the passers-by she reached the bench from where an ambulance was called, and it took the injured woman to the “Fourth Emergency Service”. Her diagnosis is chest bruise. On the same day she was visited by a police officer who drew up a protocol on the attack.
Source: http://www.iarex.ru/news/46487.html
In Kyiv “Sberbank” office was subjected to vandalism from the Samooborona Forces. Kyiv, 26. 03.2014
In Kiev in Vladimirskaya street, 46 the representatives of the Maidan Samooborona (Maidan Self-Defence) and “Avtodozor” held a picket in front of the building where the “Sberbank of Russia” is located, according to ForUm.
At this the “Samooborona” forces painted the Bank walls and windows with inscriptions “Occupier’s Bank”.
Another Euromaidan activist died, his son blames the political enemies. Mirgorod, 26.03.2014
A well-known public figure, a Euromaidan activist, a tireless fighter for the truth and the former mayor of Mirgorod Vasiliy Tretetskiy died in hospital having lost 4 liters of blood after a brutal criminal attack and having spent 9 days in an intensive care center. It is reported by the news agency “Facty”.
The head of the local Narodna Rada (People’s Council) was attacked in the street on March 16. Four unknown people began to beat him, they tried to get him into a black car and kidnap. Lying on the pavement Tretetskiy was fighting back the best he could - then one of the attackers shot his leg with a gun.
Before the arrival of the Ambulance the former mayor of Mirgorod lost much blood because of the indifference of the passers-by who did not provide him the first aid. Therefore the doctors who were fighting for his life for 9 days did not manage to save him.
Vasiliy Tretetskiy was 58 years old. From 1994 to 2000 he was the mayor of Mirgorod and headed the Association of Poltava Region Towns. In 2005–2007 he was the deputy chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.
“Today we should forgive each other the things that did not give us the opportunity to smile to each other and offer hand. If we manage to do it we will protect not only the country, we will protect each other. Especially today, when support is so important. Long live each of us, long live Ukraine!”- the dead man used to say.
Vasiliy Tretetskiy was an active participant and a coordinator of Mirgorod Euromaidan. Lately he had been more engaged in social activities, had no own business. That is why his son is convinced - his father was killed for the uncompromising Euromaidan activity.
"This attack, that is an intended contract murder, attempted premeditated murder. Unfortunately yesterday my father died, it is obviously connected with his political and social activities. As father headed the Maidan Narodna Rada and the attack occurred 50 minutes before the people’s Veche at which it was planned to raise the lustration issue”, - Sergey Tretetskiy, the son of the deceased says.
Poltava journalists are of the same opinion. They say: the dead man defended lustration at the local level actively and uncovered corruption schemes.
On the attack a criminal case was initiated under the article “Assault to Murder”. At the same time the police have not established the identity of the attackers yet despite the fact that at the shooting one had no mask.
“Actually we have a clear picture of the crime. And I think that very soon the investigation will come to its expected end and to the criminal apprehension. And what else should be said, if the investigation is not finished”- the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov says.
For the current Minister of Internal Affairs the Euromaidan activist’s death is also a personal tragedy, as Tretetskiy and Avakov were close friends and worked in Kharkov together.
181. Masked people tried to capture Poltavgasodobycha enterprise. The Poltava Region, 26.03.2014
A group of 30 people in camouflage calling themselves the Right Sector activists tried to take the function of Poltavgasodobycha enterprise security (a branch of Ukrgasdobycha state’s corporation) forcing out Alfa-Shchit private security company from the market.
182. The Right Sector accuses Chernovol of being involved in Sashko Bily’s death in Rovno. Rovno, 26.03.2014
In connection with the murder of Oleksandr Musychko, a Right Sector‘s coordinator, in the Rovno Region, his counterparts Romal Koval, Yaroslav Granitny and Oleksandr Pantukhov delivered a press-conference, where they claimed that apart from Arsen Avakov, the Minister of the Interior, Tatyana Chernovol, the head of the not-registered yet Anti-corruption Committee, should also be blamed. Oleksandr pantukhov stated that, however he did not specified what she was guilty of. The Right Sector leaders claimed also that Musychko was assassinated by the government and ‘somebody betrayed him’. The activists say that special forces headed for a particular address and even the Right Sector activists did not always know about his dislocation. Koval mentioned that the police constantly threatens to him and Granitny and they will probably be the next victims of police special operations.
183. Avakov reports about clashes with armed people calling themselves the Right Sector activists in two more Ukrainian Regions. The Zakarpattia Region, 26.03.2014
Incidents like those in the Rovno Region occur in two more country regions. In the Zkarpattia Region where a group of the Right Sector activists barricaded themselves in a private household… And the incident lasts for a second day. The other stand-off happened in the Zaporizhia Region where a group of people claiming that they allegedly are the Right Sector activists arrived to a iron-ore processing enterprise, if I am not mistaken, and announced that they would govern it,’ said Arsen Avakov, the Minister of the Interior, Obozrevatel.com reports.
