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Former riot police arrested for alleged role in Maidan killings:
Ukrainian authorities have arrested four former officers of the "Berkut" riot police for their alleged role in the violent dispersal of pro-European protesters in Kyiv in early 2014.
Larysa Sarhan, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office, said on June 24 that the four suspects were serving on Ukraine's national police force at the time of their arrest on June 23.
The four are alleged to have used violent force to disperse protesters in Kyiv on February 18, 2014, during the final days of pro-Russia former President Viktor Yanukovych's rule.
They have been charged with abuse of power, attempted murder, and illegally preventing citizens from gathering and demonstrating.
One of the suspects was also charged with the premeditated murder of more than one person.
More than a hundred people were killed in and around Kyiv’s central Independence Square, known as the Maidan, from February 18 to 20, 2014.
The deaths came after months-long opposition protests that prompted Yanukovych to flee Ukraine in late February -- a departure that led parliament to vote for his removal on grounds that he was unable to fulfill his duties. (UNIAN, Interfax)
Ukraine links EU unity to Russia sanctions:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said in the aftermath of Britain's vote to leave the European Union that he "expects the sanctions against Russia as a country-aggressor" to be extended.
On June 24, Poroshenko linked European unity to the sanctions that Brussels has imposed against Russia for its role in Ukraine's crisis.
Poroshenko said, "Today, the current challenge for the European Union is to find a way to the hearts of Euroskeptics so as not to allow a single chance to the opponents of the Eurointegration project."
In 2014, despite pressure from Russia, Ukraine signed an Association Agreement with the EU as part of its bid to eventually join the bloc.
