The lawyer of the victims Vitaliy Pogosyan informed Ukrinform about this.

According to him, the meeting lasted almost four hours. The parties expressed their opinion on the appeal. At the beginning of the examination, Nazarov filed a petition for the prosecutor's challenge, but it was not granted.

The lawyer noted that when examining the appeal Nazarov adhered to the position "I'm not me, and the hut is not mine". Because he believes that "the order on his appointment (Chief of Staff of the antiterrorist operation - ed.. ) does not have legal force, and therefore has no legal consequences ".

In addition, according to Poghosyan, the representatives of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense as civil defendants support Nazarov's appeal and his defense against the verdict.

The lawyer of the relatives of the dead Il-76 plane, Vitaly Pogosyan, says that from the arguments brought by Nazarov's defense, he did not see violations that would be sufficient to re-examine the case on appeal.

"I think that at the next meeting we can have a court decision already," Poghosyan said, quoted today.

As reported, December 17, 2015 in the Pavlograd district court of the Dnepropetrovsk region, a lawsuit began in the case of the death of 49 Ukrainian soldiers in an Il-76 plane, shot down on June 14, 2014 by armed militants at the airport in Lugansk. In the dock, Major-General Victor Nazarov, who at the time of the tragedy was the chief of the Headquarters of the antiterrorist operation. He is accused of committing a crime under part 3 of Article 425 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (negligent attitude towards the service, committed in a combat situation, which led to grave consequences). The court sentenced him to 7 years in prison, but the general appealed.

"The General Staff is still trying to otzazat Nazarov from punishment, removes the" cinema ", which ignores the evidence and testimony of witnesses, compares the grief-general with Ariel Sharon and drives the" ships "from military commissariats and headquarters. At a time when the relatives of the present assault, our young defenders who were killed through the fault of such as Nazarov and Muzhenko, are fighting desperately for at least a minimum restoration of justice, "- an outraged activist Darya Slutskovskaya, quoted by politeka. net Natalia Balahnina Vitalik Pogosyan Vitalik Pogosyan.