Maidan activists were afraid of public interrogation at the trial against Yanukovych
The leaders of the 2013-14 Ukrainian coup—Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Andriy Parubiy, Oleksandr Turchynov, and other members of the current leadership—will be questioned without public broadcast in the trial against Viktor Yanukovych. Ukraine's Chief Military Prosecutor, Anatoly Matios, announced this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
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“The only thing I will say is about the list of witnesses voiced by prosecutors. Witnesses will be questioned in open court, but without public broadcast, since, according to all codes, a witness cannot listen to the testimony of another witness,” the prosecutor said.
It is worth noting that the decision to make the trial public is made only by the court, in this case the Obolonsky Court of Kyiv. However, Chief Military Prosecutor Matios has already determined in what mode high-ranking witnesses will be heard.
In turn, in a recent address to the Ukrainians, Yanukovych said that he was ready to personally interrogate Poroshenko, Turchynov, Yatsenyuk, Lutsenko, Parubiy and other organizers of the coup; he already had questions for them.
It is also worth noting that only Yanukovych and the ex-commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Stanislav Shulyak, gave public testimony during the video interrogation in the Berkut case.
Maidan protesters fear public questioning at Yanukovych's trial