The Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv extended the term of detention of five former employees of the Berkut special forces for two months, accused of killing 48 activists of EuroMaidan in February 2014, according to 112 Ukraine,.

The next hearing of the court in the case of "Berkutovites" is scheduled for May 16.

Earlier, the lawyers of the defendants petitioned that their clients during the court sessions were not in the glass module. Since in it they can not communicate with lawyers, which deprives them of the right to defend themselves.

In addition, they asked to select a preventive measure for defendants, not related to detention.

On November 28, in Kiev's Svyatoshinsky District Court, the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was interrogated in a videoconference as a witness in the case of the murder of 48 members of the EuroMaidan by members of the Berkut police special forces Alexander Marinchenko, Sergei Tamtura, Oleg Janishevsky, Pavel Abroskin and Sergei Zinchenko. During the trial, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko announced to Yanukovych a suspicion of high treason.

For more information about the reasons and consequences of Viktor Yanukovych's interrogation, read Viktoria Morozova's article "Calling the Past" in the weekly Mirror of the Week. Ukraine".