The men are also accused of destroying and trying to hide the weapons to prevent being identified

It was probably because of the outrage over the Yanukovych regime’s savage attack on young students that turned Euromaidan into mass protests and, ultimately, into what is now known as the Revolution of Dignity

The prosecutor has already announced that he will be appealing against the startling verdicts and sentences

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

Ukrainian prosecutors have completed their investigation into planned charges against ex-President Yanukovych and 9 high-ranking officials for organizing the gunning down of unarmed protesters during the last and bloodiest days of Euromaidan

A Kyiv court has been passed the indictment against former Omega special force officer Volodymyr Kosenko on charges of killing and attempting to kill Maidan activists on 20 February 2014

The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed a claim by Oleksandr Marynchenko, one of the former Berkut officers accused of gunning down unaimed Maidan activists on 20 February 2014 and has reinstated him in Ukraine’s police force.

Volodymyr Serba, former Head of the Zaporizhya Regional Police, claimed that he was not in hiding, despite evidence that he had fled to Russia and reason to believe that he has obtained Russian citizenship

Viktor Eismont and Volodymyr Mokhon were not, however, convicted of carrying out a criminal order, although it was the sheer savagery of that Berkut attack that turned Euromaidan into a mass movement

Oleksandr Volkov was sentenced to 9 years for organizing the abduction and savage torture of Yury Verbytsky, but was not convicted of organizing his murder

After seven years of effective sabotage, the trial of two men over the killing of 72-year-old retired anaesthetist and Maidan activist Lyudmila Sheremet may finally be moving

Ukraine’s Supreme Court has revoked a presidential decree dismissing Oksana Tsarevych, notorious both for politically motivated trials under Yanukovych and for persecuting Automaidan activists

Three of the only five men whose trial over the killings on 20 February 2014 was coming to an end are now in hiding, with the trial of the remaining two men only just beginning again

Almost exactly seven years after the first deaths of Euromaidan activists, including the abduction and savage killing of Yury Verbytsky, the European Court of Human Rights has issued damning judgements

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made yet another baffling appointmentv, this time naming Oleksandr Kuksa head of a department within the Security Service

The anti-corruption investigative journalist, Maidan activist and, later, MP, could, if convicted, face a life sentence on charges which the former chief investigator into crimes during Euromaidan has said he sees no grounds for.

After almost four years of dragging out the trial of Viktor Kytsiuk, a judge involved in the persecution of Automaidan activists, the Ukrainian prosecutor and court have suddenly begun moving with breath-taking speed

The Svyatoshynsky District Court in Kyiv has declared as fugitives three former Berkut officers accused of mass murder during the Maidan protests

The appointment of a person associated with notorious pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk as Deputy Prosecutor General and reports that is to be in charge of Maidan cases seem another slap in the face to the families of slain Maidan victims, one of many over the last year.

The judge who, in September 2014, released under house arrest a former Berkut commander charged with the gunning down of peaceful Maidan protesters has been acquitted of issuing knowingly wrongful court rulings