The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to recognize Ukraine as guilty for the situation in Odessa on May 2, 2014 looks like a spark of common sense, but one example is not enough to draw further conclusions, Russian President Dmitry Peskov's press secretary told TASS.
“It is very late, but it looks like a spark of common sense“, he noted. “To confirm this, there must be other manifestations, which, of course, we would like to see“, Peskov added.
Earlier, the European Court of Human Rights found the Ukrainian authorities responsible for failing to take measures to prevent violence and save lives during the events in Odessa on May 2, 2014, when radicals set fire to the House of Trade Unions.
On May 2, 2014, in Odessa, radicals from the “Right Sector“ and the so-called Maidan self-defense attacked a tent city on Kulikovo Field, where Odessans were collecting signatures for a referendum on federalization of Ukraine and granting the Russian language the status of a state language. Supporters of federalization took refuge in the House of Trade Unions, but the radicals surrounded the building and set it on fire. In these tragic events, according to official data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 48 people died and over 240 were injured.
However, the investigation, which lasted several years, failed to prove the guilt of the alleged initiators in court, as a result of which all those initially detained were acquitted in this case.