Old games again: Fugitive Kyiv riot police chief spotted during dispersing protests in Moscow
Colonel Sergei Kusyuk, a former chief of pro-Yanukovych Berkut riot police in Kyiv, has been spotted during yesterday’s anti-corruption rally in Moscow.
On Tuesday TV station Dozhd (Rain) has published a photo of Kusyuk wearing uniform with the insignia of the Russian Interior Ministry’s special-purpose unit.
After Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych had been ousted, Sergei Kusyuk fled to Crimea. Ukraine put the fugitive colonel on the wanted list on suspicion of involvement in massacres of activists during the Revolution of Dignity in 2014.
Berkut riot policemen shot dead many Euromaidan activists, including Belarusian citizen Mikhail Zhyzneuski. Special forces soldiers also beat Belsat TV journalists who were filming protests in Cherkasy. Many of them are now hiding in the occupied Crimea and Donbas.
