The head of the Berkut veterans association responded to Makarevich with a quote from Kinchev
Kyiv-Simferopol, April 19 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – After the victory of the Maidan, about 150 fighters of Berkut, internal troops and Alpha moved to Crimea from the mainland.
The head of the Berkut veterans association, Vladimir Krashevsky, stated this in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “Reporter”.
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“People don’t want to serve the regime and, especially, fight shoulder to shoulder with the Right Sector... In fact, there aren’t that many who moved. I won’t say the exact number, about 150 people,” he said, adding that a number of Ukrainian security officials also left for Russia.
Krashevsky admitted that during the revolution in Kyiv, Berkut also violated the law.
“Yes, there were abuses of power: journalists and unarmed people were beaten. Nobody denies this. There are no and cannot be justifications for these actions. But what does this mean? About the low level of training of special forces employees. There simply aren’t enough specialists to train them,” he said.
According to Krashevsky, law enforcement officers on the Maidan used the available weapons only in extreme cases, but mostly fired pre-emptively. “They could put down all the attackers and, by the way, on completely legal grounds,” the veteran noted.
He claims that if there had been a command to kill, the number of deaths on the Maidan would have been much greater than the “Heavenly Hundred” counted. “There would not be a “heavenly hundred,” but rather a “heavenly front.” No one would have been given a chance to leave... If Alpha or Omega had worked. After all, it is clear that the demonstrators are being hit from the back and flanks, and there were simply no law enforcement officers there,” assures Krashevsky.
At the request of the journalist, he also commented on the support of Maidan by Russian musician Andrei Makarevich, who wrote “Omonov Waltz.”
“He is a creative person. He probably can. Although I personally have never listened to “Makaronych”. I grew up on the work of the leader of “Alice” Konstantin Kinchev and I will answer with his words: “Whoever is responsible for what will live with it, time will tell who was worth what in this blizzard. Whoever is out there in the next world circling the round dance will explain at that moment the finger on the trigger,” answered Krashevsky.
When asked by the journalist to clarify what he was hinting at with Kinchev’s quote, Krashevsky explained: “The hint is that everything is just beginning, and the main work is still ahead of us.”
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