Kyiv’s Pechersk district court has ruled to remand in custody former senior officials of Viktor Yanukovych regime, namely two heads of law enforcement agencies charged with complicity in grave and especially grave crimes against Maidan protesters during the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014.
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UNIAN: Maidan trial – Court rules to arrest ex-SBU chief, commander of interior ministry’s troops
Beams of light dubbed "Rays of Dignity" are projected in the sky at the Maidan activists memorial also called the "Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred", referring to the people killed during the anti-government demonstration of 2014, during a commemorative event in Kyiv on Feb. 20, 2020. Ukraine marks the sixth anniversary of the bloody end of the revolution that ousted Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych and in which nearly 100 people were killed, most of them between Feb. 18 and Feb. 20, 2014.
