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| Police kill far-right leader in west Ukraine |
| 2014-03-26 |
| [Al Ahram] Ukrainian elite police rubbed out a far-right nationalist leader in the western city of Rivne in a shootout that erupted during a raid to arrest him, the government said Tuesday. Oleksandr Muzytchko, better known as "Sashko Bilyi", the head of Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) in western Ukraine, opened fire first, deputy interior minister Volodymyr Evdokimov said. The shootout broke out at a cafe on Monday night when the "Sokol" special forces went in to arrest Muytchko, who had been wanted for organised crime, Evdokimov said. Pravy Sektor played a crucial role in the frontlines of deadly protests that unseated pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych last month and has been branded a neo-Nazi organization by Russia. After the uprising, pro-Kremlin forces seized control from Ukraine of ethnic Russian-dominated Crimea, as Moscow said it reserved the right to protect its compatriots from Death Eaters. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Evdokimov said the bullet that killed Muzytchko had come from his own gun. The security forces shot him twice in the leg, and he suffered three other bullet wounds while on the ground in a struggle with them, the interior deputy minister said. "One wonders if he did away with himself or if his adversaries shot at him," he said. Three of Muzytchko's accomplices, who had been armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Makarov pistol, were locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the same operation and taken to Kiev pending an investigation. Pravy Sektor on Saturday formed a political party, and Dmytro Yarosh was elected its leader and put forward as its candidate in Ukraine's presidential election on May 25. Reacting to Muzytchko's death, Yarosh demanded the sacking of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the arrest of the commander of the "Sokol" forces behind the operation. |
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| #1 Thieves starting to fight over loot. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-26 00:36 |