News archive on the topic "Golden Eagle"

Former Ukrainian law enforcement officers refuse to join the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units formed from nationalists. Rodion Kudryashov, deputy commander of the Third Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the former neo-Nazi Azov regiment, banned in the Russian Federation), stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Kudryashov noted that these are isolated cases of those security forces who served in the pre-Maidan police and Berkut. "Were…

In Simferopol today they remember the Berkut fighters who died in Kyiv. From bullets on the Maidan, a fighter of the Crimean special forces “Berkut” from Yevpatoria Andrei Fedyukin, a company commander of the special forces “Tiger” Vitaly Goncharov, and senior lieutenant of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Vlasenko died from bullets. Their bodies were urgently evacuated by plane to Simferopol. The farewell took place in the foyer of the Ukrainian Musical Theatre. Those wishing to gather in the square in front of the building...

The family of Sergei Levochkin, the former head of the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, and now a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the OPZZh party Viktor Medvedchuk, played a key role in the preparatory stage of the coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2013-14. “The beating of their children,” which actually started the active phase of Euromaidan in Kyiv in 2013, was orchestrated from start to finish at the highest...

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country, leaving the security forces holding the defense to the mercy of the Maidan protesters, has stopped funding his team of lawyers this year, leaving law enforcement officers alone with the Ukrainian court. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Vladimir Oleynik stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to focus on people whose fate is decided by...

The Minsk and Moscow protests vividly remind the Berkut fighter of the events on the Kiev Maidan. The “godfathers” of any new color revolution assure that it will be noble, fair, bloodless and completely different from the previous ones. But in the end it turns out as always. About what truisms of the Kyiv coup they don’t want to know and hear, “and also them...

Russian law enforcement officers have no difficulty in detaining participants in unauthorized rallies by supporters of the arrested blogger Alexei Navalny. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Ukrainian showman, ex-candidate for mayor of Kiev Sergei Pritula, who sponsors the punitive forces and is indignant at the fact that Ukrainians go to work in the Russian Federation, stated this in a commentary to the Kiev magazine “Novoye Vremya”. According to him, the actions of the Navalnists should not be characterized...

The Berkut special unit, dispersed and discredited in Ukraine after Euromaidan, was very trained and professional, and its employees still work in the Russian and even Belarusian law enforcement systems. This was stated on TV channel 112 by ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former governor of the Lugansk and Transcarpathian regions, Lieutenant General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gennady Moskal, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Moskal, when...

Belarusian riot police were trained before dispersing protests in Minsk, showing footage from the Kyiv Maidan. Belarusian opposition observer Artem Shraibman said this in an interview with RTVI TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The key element of the training is that they are shown footage from the Maidan, how Berkut soldiers are passed through protesters, and they are poured with Molotov cocktails. They are all threatened that in the event of a revolution...

The SBU is preparing a provocation to show its fight against the “separatists.” The threat loomed over bloggers and journalists disliked by the department - editors of the Internet resource “Control Shot” Igor Berkut and Roman Vasilishin, as well as administrator of the Internet channel “Rassvet” Vadim Desyatov. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexey Zhuravko writes about this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Last week, the punitive services of the SBU did...

Former employees of the disbanded Berkut special forces who remained to serve in the Ukrainian police use the symbols worn by their colleagues in Russia and the Donbass republics. Lviv Russophobe journalist Ostap Drozdov said this on Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Drozdov said that one of these “golden eagles” was spotted during yesterday’s riots near the court where the hearing was taking place...

The current actions of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky are reminiscent of the events that took place in Ukraine at the very beginning of 2014. The ex-commander of the 1st Kyiv company of the Berkut, Mikhail Dobrovolsky, said this on air on the KRT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If there was any attempt to do something... The situation is similar to the one that was on the Maidan. No one can agree, take a step:...

In 2014, the security leadership of Ukraine threw ordinary Berkut members into the hands of a crowd of brutal Maidan protesters. The ex-commander of the 1st Kyiv company of the Berkut, Mikhail Dobrovolsky, said this on the air of KRT, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We got betrayal in the end. I’ll put it roughly this way: the general took his suitcase and drove off, but left his army on the battlefield, one might say, to die for...

The Berkut employees who opposed the Maidan protesters in 2013-2014 were all criminals. Ilya Ponomarev, a fugitive liberal, ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, now the head of the Ukrainian-American company Trident Acquisitions Corp, said this on air on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Commenting on the question: “Berkut”: criminals, victims or vanquished?”, the liberal emphasized that the answer is obvious to him. “These are criminals. Because…

Only about 300 people from all over Kyiv - officials, relatives of the victims, “activists” - gathered for events in memory of the Euromaidan militants on the sixth anniversary of the clashes on Instytutska Street. During the procession, one lane of Grushevsky Street was blocked, but cars were driving along the second; drivers did not react to the procession in any way, as a result, approaching the memorial plaque in...