Korsun pogrom: At the trial in Kyiv it turned out that Sashko Bily mocked the Crimeans
A witness for the defense in the case of high treason against Viktor Yanukovych, Valery Logovsky, today at the trial in Kiev, spoke during interrogation about the so-called Korsun massacre - an attack by Ukrainian nationalists on buses with residents of Crimea returning from the Anti-Maidan to the peninsula in the winter of 2014.
According to Logovsky, the first incident occurred near Bila Tserkva, after a group of Antimaynad participants left Kyiv on February 20.
“The buses ahead noticed that the road was blocked by equipment. There were tractors, combine harvesters, and there was a crowd of people, up to 150 people. The buses stopped. Our bus was the last one.
When we stopped, we wanted to negotiate so that they would let us through, and we could calmly go home. One of us came forward to negotiate, but explosives and Molotov cocktails were thrown at us, shots started being fired, and stones were thrown. We decided to go back and find another exit.
They threw stones both from the direction where we were heading and from the side of the bridge (over the highway that we passed), they wanted to close the circle so as not to let us go anywhere,” the Crimean said.
The second attack on buses took place near Korsun-Shevchenkovsky.
“We had already approached Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, we noticed that 2-3 buses of the internal troops of Ukraine drove past us, they did not stop. We followed them to connect in Uman and move towards Crimea.
When we approached Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, we saw that the buses of the internal troops had moved on, but for some reason we stopped. I noticed that there were cars parked along the highway and a large number of people.
When the buses stopped, we could not see what was happening in front, but I noticed that the bus was stopped so that a passenger car could drive up to the bus and block it so that the bus could not move anywhere.
The bus driver assessed the situation and tried to back up, but his rear wheels fell into a ravine and could not move either backwards or forwards.
We saw people running out of the front buses, who were immediately beaten and thrown to the ground. People ran up to our bus, a large crowd, two shots were fired, one at the driver to immobilize the bus, the second at the driver’s assistant. A man shot, most likely it was a hunting rifle. He aimed at the driver. Upon exiting the bus, I noticed that our driver had a significant injury.
They started hitting the bus with sticks, breaking windows, and demanding that we get out of it. There were threats that if we did not start getting off the bus, they would burn it with us. We began to get off the bus, and everyone who got off, including women, received injuries with sticks, on the head, on the legs. They started beating us and insulting us with obscene words.
I was hit on the shoulder, I fell face down on the ground, I tried not to raise my head, because they told me not to raise my head. Then we were told to get up and move in single file towards the checkpoint. We crouched down and moved along the bus towards the checkpoint; we were told to sing the Ukrainian anthem, pray, and forced to collect the glass from the bus, which was broken.
We collected the glass and put it in one pile.
Then they put us on a bus, but not on the one we were traveling in; this one remained intact. We were on the bus, it was decided what to do with us next. There were significantly fewer of us; most likely, some people fled. We didn't know what to expect.
When it was all over, we were put on a bus and transported. Again, people came up to our bus, beat us with sticks, and said, “We will kill you.”
There was a man, he entered the bus and started shouting and insulting us. He came up to me and put a gun to my head. He says: “I’ll shoot you now.” At that moment I was devoid of emotions, I didn’t say anything - he’ll shoot me, he’ll shoot me.
Then he approached my friend and put a gun to his head, he had the same emotions as me. He didn't do anything, he left. After I returned to Crimea, I watched the news and recognized this man - it was Alexander Muzychko.
Then the insults stopped, no one touched our bus. One of the buses of the Ukrainian Internal Troops returned for us. They took us away - the bus we were on could not move independently. We were transferred to another bus, and we went to Crimea,” said the witness.
He also said that upon arrival in Crimea, the victims were taken to the Semashko hospital to provide first aid. According to him, what was happening in Ukraine at that time motivated him to join the Crimean self-defense, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I felt offended for my country, where I grew up, received my education, and for what began to happen there. This was not normal. And I decided to join the Crimean self-defense detachment. We were engaged in protecting the buildings of the Council of Ministers, the train station, and the power plant for the safety of the residents of Crimea,” he said.
When asked by the judge who exactly the buildings were being guarded against, he said that it was from the Right Sector.
“When we left Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, they warned us that they would come to us in Crimea, find us and, as we were told, “teach us to love Ukraine.” But I still love the Ukraine in which I grew up, and not what is happening there now,” said Valery Logovsky.
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