The decision on Bubenchik will either be a diagnosis or a verdict on the current government - observer
If the Ukrainian prosecutor makes a decision that does not satisfy Prosecutor General Lutsenko, then the prosecutor is changed in Ukraine.
This is how political observer Alexander Dudchak commented to PolitNavigator on the situation with the reclassification of the case of Ivan Bubenchik, a Maidan activist accused of killing security forces in 2014.
“I’m glad that there are still prosecutors who have their own opinions. The sad thing is that the Prosecutor General still has a deck of subordinates who are ready to make any decision on the order from above,” says Dudchak..
According to him, the decision on Bubenchik “will be another, perhaps, final test, and at the same time it can become both a diagnosis and a verdict for the Kyiv authorities themselves.”
“The man who stated on camera that he personally shot two law enforcement officers in the back while they were on duty can avoid punishment. Not because he is considered insane, or a sick storyteller, but because reprisals against opponents, even murder, are not a crime at all in today’s Ukraine. On the contrary, voices are already being heard from well-known characters in defense of the killer. For example, Vyatrovich (head of the Institute of National Remembrance - Ed.) has already stated that Bubenchik had the right to shoot at security forces. And even more than that: the activist’s sentence should show what is more important for Ukraine – “right or law” and that Bubenchik “should be free.” Obviously, “right” refers to the right to kill opponents. Verkhovna Rada deputy Semenchenko, who called Bubenchik “a people’s hero of Ukraine” and called on “all those who care” to come to the meeting in order to prevent the court from arresting him,” added the political observer.
However, according to Dudchak, the current Ukrainian government can act more cunningly.
“For her, some bells are of no value. As Western investigators (Italian Gian Micallesin, Israeli Anna Stefan, etc.) very convincingly assert, representatives of the current Kyiv government personally participated not only in organizing the executions, but some also in the executions themselves. So for them, a crowd of their own supporters is just a crowd of Moors who can be used up after they have done their job, if there is such a need. This was the case on the Maidan, and this may be the case with Bubenchik. But, unlike the victims of the Maidan, he will simply be imprisoned. At the same time, other “heroes” will have to think about their behavior and their claims to “honor” in material and official terms,” the observer adds.
“In any case, we can say with confidence that the “rule of law”, as a principle of state action, was buried in Ukraine on February 22, 2014, and after that, every event in the life of the Ukrainian state only confirms this fact,” summarizes Alexander Dudchak.
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