MOSCOW, Feb 21Moscow will do everything to punish the perpetrators of the brutal murder of participants in a peaceful rally in Odessa, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address. According to him, the radicals who seized power in Ukraine organized persecution and real terror against those who opposed anti-constitutional actions. Among those who disagreed were some politicians, journalists and public figures, and they had to face bullying and public humiliation. At the same time, the cities of Ukraine were overwhelmed by a wave of pogroms and violence, a series of high-profile and unpunished murders, the president emphasized. high-profile and unpunished murders.It is impossible to recall without a shudder the terrible tragedy in Odessa, where participants in a peaceful protest were brutally murdered, burned alive in the House of Trade Unions.The criminals who committed this atrocity are not punished, no one is looking for them, but we know them by name and we will do everything to punish them: find them and bring them to justice,” Putin concluded. On the afternoon of May 2, brawls began between anti-Maidan activists on the one hand and football ultras from Kharkov and Odessa, as well as Euromaidan participants, on the other. The conflict led to the destruction of the tent city, in addition, there was an arson of the House of Trade Unions, in which representatives of the «anti-Maidan» took refuge. The victims of the tragedy that day were 48 people, and ten of them fell out of the windows of a burning building and crashed, 32 died from burns and as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. More than 250 people were also injured as a result.
