The Samopomich faction in Ukraine’s parliament has demanded that Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov be invited to parliament to explain the situation with the detention of Maidan activist Ivan Bubenchyk.
According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, Yehor Sobolev, deputy head of the Samopomich faction, said at an evening session of the Verkhovna Rada on April 3 that the police had detained Maidan activist Bubenchyk.
According to him, the prosecutor’s office requests that he be given a preventive measure in the form of arrest on suspicion of killing Berkut police officers on Maidan.
“I propose that parliament immediately invite Ukraine’s prosecutor general and the interior minister so they explain to us and the society what is happening, and why they see justice like this today,” Sobolev said.
According to the head of the department for special investigations at the Prosecutor General’s Office, Serhiy Horbatiuk, Bubenchyk is suspected of encroaching on the life of a law enforcement officer – the murder of two police officers (Article 348 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Bubenchyk told Hromadske.TV that he had been detained in Lviv region.
In February 2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine conducted an investigation into a statement by Bubenchyk that he killed two Berkut police officers on February 20, 2014.
Horbatiuk then said that investigators should determine whether it was murder or self-defense.
Bubenchyk is a Euromaidan activist, the commander of the Zakhid-2 battalion, and a participant in the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas.
