It is seven years since the worst day of bloodshed on Maidan left 49 activists dead and over 150 injured. Three of the only five men whose trial over the killings on Feb. 20, 2014, are now in hiding, with the trial of the remaining two men only just beginning again. On Feb. 17, Ukraine’s parliament finally voted in its first reading on a bill that could make it possible to try the three fugitives in absentia. According to lawyer Yevhenia Zakrevska, important amendments must still be made and soon to this bill if there is to be any chance of receiving a verdict regarding the only Berkut officers to have been put on trial over the killings that day.
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A woman lays flowers at the memorial to the Heavenly Hundred in remembrance of the people killed in the EuroMaidan Revolution in Kyiv on Feb. 18, 2021.
