Ukraine authorities announce find of arms linked to 2014 protest crackdown
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Kyiv. Ukrainian investigators said Saturday they had found a cache of 24 guns implicated in a bloody crackdown on pro-EU demonstrators in February 2014 that led to the downfall of the country’s pro-Russian leader, AFP reported.
The cache comprised dismantled parts from 23 Kalashnikov assault rifles and a high-precision rifle that had been assigned to a now-dissolved special police anti-riot unit called the Berkut, they said.
The SBU security service and the public prosecutor told reporters that the guns had been found buried at a site on the outskirts of Kyiv after they had been immersed in a nearby lake and their serial numbers removed.
The weapons had been assigned to Berkut personnel who had been deployed in Kyiv’s Maidan Square on February 20, 2014, when about 50 demonstrators were killed, officials said.
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