‘Now Patrol Police Officers Will Live on Training Grounds’: Kyiv Police Chiefs Sacked After Officers Flee Shooting Scene

Tamara Ceaikovski

Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has dismissed the entire leadership chain of Kyiv’s patrol police after officers were filmed fleeing a shooting scene in the capital’s Holosiivsky district , in an incident that triggered public outrage and a criminal investigation. “As for personnel decisions following the findings of the internal investigation, the entire chain of command has now been removed: from platoon commander to the head of the Kyiv Patrol Police Department,” Klymenko told