The Kyiv region prosecutor’s office does not confirm the death of the sixth policeman in a shootout between police officers in the village of Knyazhychi Brovarsky district, Kyiv region on Dec. 4 night.
“According to the prosecutor’s office of Kyiv region, five law enforcement officers were killed … There was no sixth officer killed during the shooting. Yesterday I verified the information with our investigators: there is no the sixth policeman among the casualties,” the press service of the Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv region told Interfax-Ukraine on Dec. 5.
In turn, an MP from the People’s Front faction Anton Gerashchenko told journalists in Kyiv on Dec. 5, “I think the speaker has made a reservation.”
As reported, on Dec. 4, 2016 at 4:00 am in the village of Knyazhychi, Brovarsky district, Kyiv region employees of Special Weapons and Tactics police (KORD) of Ukrainian National Police, while performing their duties, used automatic weapons against the staff of Brovarsky Police Department of the Main Guard Police Department, which, together with two officers of the Main Department of operational service of the National Police in Kyiv, who were also performing their duties, used automatic weapons in response. Five law-enforcement officers were killed.
On Dec. 5, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy during the Rada’s conciliatory board said that six employees of various Ukrainian law-enforcement agencies were killed on Sunday night as a result of a shooting between police officers in the village of Knyazhychi of Brovarsky district, Kyiv region.
