Ten ex-employees of ‘Berkut’ with their head, who are accused in shooting down of 48 Maidan activists in Kyiv on February 2014, have got Russian citizenship. The prosecutor Roman Psyuk has claimed about it on the session of Svyatoshin District Court, ‘Hromadske’ reports.

‘General Prosecutor of RF has given the official answer. At this moment, 10 ex-soldiers of the Special sq. ‘Berkut’ got the Russian citizenship. Two more men are hiding on the territory of RF’, the Prosecutor reported.

According to his words, Russia has provided to Sadovnik (the head of Special sq.) the citizenship already in December 2014 and other nine ex-top brassers (Aleksei Tsvigun, Nazar Zaritsky, Roman Panchenko, Jury Kravets, Oleg Kishkan, Eugeny Pronoza, Igor Vladyka, Sergei Devyaty, Ivan Makarets – ed.) have got the citizenship in the period from April 2014 till January 2015.

Also, It’s reported that two more from ‘Berkut’, Vladimir Trepachev and Petr Psarev, have got provisional asylum in Russia. At this time they’re in refugee status.