A UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine will present an analytical report “Responsibility for murders and violent deaths on May 2, 2014 in Odesa.”
“The document contains a brief overview of the events that happened in Odesa on May 2, 2014. As a result of clashes in the city center between groups called by the document “unity supporters” and “federalism supporters,” six female members from each group were fatally wounded. On the same day, 42 people (34 men, 7 women and one boy) died after the unrest continued on [Odesa’s] Kulykove Pole square, and a fire broke out in the House of Trade Unions,” the Mission’s press service said on Friday.
The findings presented in the analytical report are based on observations made directly during the events of May 2, 2014, as well as on information obtained during visits to places of detention, communication with witnesses, victims and their lawyers, during the monitoring of trials and as a result of the analysis of court decisions and meetings with representatives of state and regional authorities.
