A bullet extracted from the body of Oleksandr Muzychko, a coordinator of the radical Ukrainian nationalist organization Right Sector known also as Sashko Bily, and the bullet extracted from the arm of an injured member of the Sokil special task force involved in an attempt to detain Muzychko had been fired from the same weapon held by Muzychko himself, First Deputy Interior Minister Volodymyr Yevdokymov said.
“The bullet extracted from Bily’s body and the bullet extracted from a Sokil member had been fired from the same weapon that belonged to Muzychko,” Yevdokymov said at a news conference in Kyiv on March 28.
Yevdokymov warned, however, that no premature judgments should be made before the final findings are made public.
“Let’s wait for the conclusion, I don’t want us to influence it,” Yevdokymov said, adding that an ad hoc commission is supposed to conduct an inquiry within 10 days and made a conclusion about the legitimacy of the use of weapons by security forces in the operation to detain Muzychko.
Yevdokymov said earlier that policemen involved in the operation intended to detain and question Muzychko rather than kill him, but everything went wrong.
Muzychko’s third shot at a Sokil member hit the latter in the arm. Muzychko received five gunshot wounds, including two in the legs and three in the chest. One bullet was removed from his body, but the rest had gone through him.
