Admin l Wednesday, April 12, 2017
KIEV, UKRAINE – Charges bothering on treasonable felony have been slammed on former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych.
The Obolonsky District Court in Kiev said the trial will commence May 4, 2017.
On January 30, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced that investigation into Yanukovych had been completed.
In March, prosecutors submitted the case to the Pechersky District Court in Kiev, but the court refused to consider it.
An appeals court later transferred the case to the Obolonsky District Court. In late December, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko read charges against Yanukovych in a court through videoconference link.
Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office filed a motion to initiate trial of the former president in absentia. The Ukrainian prosecutors accuse Yanukovych of using fire arms against protesters in Kiev in late 2013 and early 2014.
Protests, called Euromaidan, swept across the country and it led to violent clashes between armed activists and law enforcement officers in late 2013 and early 2014 after the government announced that it is breaking ties with the European Union.
Fighting between radical anti-government protesters and police culminated in mass riots on February 18, 2014. On February 20, fire was opened on protestors. Over 100 people died those days on both sides, according to RIA Novosti.
