The Sviatoshyn District Court in Kyiv announced sentences for five former Berkut riot police officers on Oct. 18, who were accused of killing protesters in February 2014.
A Ukrainian court on Wednesday handed a former police officer a life sentence and gave two others 15-year prison terms over the deaths of dozens of people shot dead in 2014 during protests that toppled a pro-Russian president, authorities said. All three former officers were sentenced in absentia by Kyiv's Sviatoshyn District Court because they were handed over to Russia in 2019 in a prisoner exchange. The case focused on the killing of 48 protesters on Feb. 20, the final and bloodiest day of clashes with security forces at protests in central Kyiv that brought down President Viktor Yanukovych in what became known as the Maidan Revolution.
A Kyiv court sentenced five former Berkut officers accused of involvement in the Feb. 20, 2014 shootings of Euromaidan protestors, when 48 people died.
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KYIV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian court on Wednesday handed a former police officer a life sentence and gave two others 15-year prison terms over the death.