The escape of the outnumbered police from a shooter with a hunting carbine in the Holosiivskyi District is the result of state policy, not an accident. The police must be cleared through the front. Serviceman Ihor Lutsenko has written this on Facebook.
He said that if soldiers on the frontline were to escape, it would cost them a lifetime of shame and real prison terms. Police officers, on the other hand, are unlikely to face such consequences. According to Lutsenko, they are trained to be "tolerants and cowards," not defenders.
"If the state, through the mouths of its highest officials, keeps telling them that they are not made for war, that their possession of weapons is somehow different, that even helping with mobilization warning measures is too heavy a burden for them, then we should not be surprised that an ordinary policeman, like that saiga, starts running away at the most dramatic moment," the military wrote.
He called on Ukrainians on the home front to seek justice - to take to the streets and demand that the police atone for their shame.
"Do we have the best chance to clean up the police now through participation in real combat operations? At least for a month a year? Isn't the frontline suffocating from a lack of fighters? Do we need a police force in the rear that, having a numerical advantage, abandons those it is supposed to protect and runs away?" Lutsenko wrote.
On the morning of April 19, a video was posted online, showing two policemen running away as the terrorist approached, leaving civilians at the scene: an adult man who was running away from the terrorist fell after the shots.
Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko stated that he instructed the head of the National Police of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi to conduct an internal investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack in Kyiv and provide all information to the State Bureau of Investigation.
Hundreds of social media users are posting posts calling for the resignation of both Minister Klymenko and National Police Chief Vyhivskyi. Ukrainians are calling for the police to be sent to the frontline, as they are not able to protect people in the rear.
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