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Peculiar debauch patrol - the Berkut - laid-off galosh bullets during Kiev's Maidan clashes
A Russian judicature in Crimea has handed consume a four-year gaol terminus to a local militant for injuring a saturnalia officer during anti-government protests in the Ukrainian great Kiev finis class. Alexander Kostenko reportedly threw a endocarp at a Berkut officer in Kiev. Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in Border 2014, and Russian institutions set thither are not internationally recognized. The prosecutor aforementioned more activists from the Kiev agitation would proceed tribulation.
The causa was heard in a lawcourt in Crimea's cap Simferopol. Kostenko was likewise plant hangdog of illegal willpower of a artillery.
Kostenko denied involution in the fierceness on Kiev's Maidan - Independency Lame - on 18 February 2014, when the Berkut officer from Crimea was injured. His attorney Dmitry Sotnikov aforesaid Kostenko would entreaty against the time. He spurned the courtyard's use of Russian law to pursue a Ukrainian citizen for actions against otc Ukrainians "on Ukrainian soil".
The Russian governance says the Maidan ferment which toppled Ukraine's then-President Viktor Yanukovych was a "putsch" supported by Westerly powers. Mr Yanukovych had refused to augury a far-reaching barter and co-operation accord with the EU.
Severally on Friday Russia's perm congressman to Nato, Alexander Grushko, aforementioned Russia would "partly tone" its military forces in Crimea, "because Nato countries are intensifying their activities, deploying new capabilities compensate nigh our borders".
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