Thread by @abstractedaway

@OKhudetska as a journalist is respected in 🇺🇦 for work like this: a spotlight on Berkut who shоt dozens of Ukraine's Heavenly Hundred in 2014, and those like Avakov who blocked efforts to apprehend them.

It'll also help you know why you ought not RT @Gerashchenko_en.
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@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "I know it's a bit long, but it's a masterpiece of how Avakov and senior police officers blocked the arrest of the Black Berkut Company, one of the units that carried out the shootіng on Instytutska, in Apr 2014.

This allowed most of them to escape."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "Here, then-Deputy Prosecutor General Bahanets describes how detentions of 16 members of the Black Company were disrupted: senior police officers broke into investigators' offices, threatened investigators, and took soldiers away from interrogations..."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "...The operation was clearly previously leaked by the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "Then the building in the center of Kyiv where the interrogations were taking place, was surrounded by 300 Berkut officers WITH GUNS, blocking the exits to prevent the removal of those already detained..."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "...They were able to remove three of [the Berkut officers], while the rest were released under threats of armed assault."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "Not only were none dismissed for rioting, Avakov met with a Berkut and promised them protection."

"My sources told me about this conversation. They say Avakov promised directly 'I won't give you to them'. In exchange, he asked for personal loyalty."

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en "In 2015, during the evaluation, we found that at least 9 Berkut officers were part of Avakov's personal security.

You can sense the connection they have.

They didn't show up to the evaluation, but called in sick... by some miracle they weren't fired"

"Oh, and... Berkut did not pass the evaluation, the evaluation with the public and journalists in the commissions. They had some kind of internal evaluation... 🫠🫠

...apparently very strict."

@OKhudetska links to an informative article by Oleksiy Baganets. In it you'll notice that @Gerashchenko_en covered for Avakov.

@OKhudetska @Gerashchenko_en For your convenience, a link directly to a translation:

This is why we need to check in with Ukrainians. No matter how good Gerashchenko's social media team is - don't RT him! He has no right to it.resonance-ua.translate.goog/pro-rol-mvs-ta…

This focus of @OKhudetska's journalism is valued in 🇺🇦. She's exposed cover-ups, tracked Berkut as they've been brought to trials they'd likely have escaped otherwise.

It deeply matters, holding kіllеrs of the Heavenly Hundred to account. Please read and boost her original 🧵.

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