A meeting was held in the Kiev District Court on the case of the beating of 36-year-old journalist-operator of the Kharkov news service Vesti Vadim Makaryuk.

Recall that a media worker was injured on June 7 during clashes on the Barabashovo market.. Makaryuk suffered a stroke and was in intensive care for a long time.

On January 16, 2020, three accused Ilya Aleshkin, Mikhail Bazaley and Oleg Radchenko appeared at the meeting.. The fourth accused Sergei Kozlyuk, who was on sick leave, and the accused’s lawyer Yevgeny Samoilov, who at that time was at another meeting in the Dzerzhinsky court, did not appear.

Due to the absence of participants in the process, the meeting was postponed until February 10, says Lens.

Makaryuk commented to reporters that now he has 2 disability groups, his right hand is functioning, but he cannot write.

Kharkiv local prosecutor’s office No. 2 approved the indictment against these persons on the facts of harassing a journalist for his professional activities, intentional bodily harm, destruction of journalist’s property and hooliganism.