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List of victims

 * 26 January: Mykola Serhiyenko, former first deputy chief of Ukrainian railroads, gunshot
 * 29 January: Oleksiy Kolesnyk, ex-head of Kharkiv's regional government was found hanged
 * 25 February: Serhiy Valter, a mayor in the south-eastern city of Melitopol, was found hanged; he too had been accused of abuse of office
 * 26 February: Oleksandr Bordyuh, a former police deputy chief in Melitopol linked to Mr Valter, was found dead at his home
 * 28 February: Mykhaylo Chechetov, former party deputy chairman, died after apparently jumping from a window in his 17th-floor flat ; he had been accused of abuse of office and fraud
 * 9 March: Stanislav Melnyk, 53, an ex-MP was found shot dead in his bathroom
 * 12 March: Oleksandr Peklushenko was found dead in his house in the village of Sonyachne, near Zaporizhzhya city. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck
 * January 26: Mykola Serhiyenko, former first deputy chief of Ukrainian railroads, gunshot

All of them supposedly took their own lives in just six weeks

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 * 13 April: Sergey Sukhobok, a Donetsk-news reporter, was shot and killed in a friend's dacha near Kiev, during a "dispute" . Two suspects were arrested after Buzina's murder, below.
 * 15 April: Oleh Kalashnikov, a former MP and member of the Party of Regions headed by former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead as he entered his premises in Kiev . He had claimed to be threatened in writing.
 * 16 April: Oles Buzina, a Ukrainian journalist known for his vitriolic pro-Russian stances, was shot dead close to his home in Kiev by two unidentifiable men in masks

UPA was accused to be behind some of these deaths : the day after Buzina’s murder, Ukrainian political scientist Volodymyr Fesenko received an e-mail message from a group calling itself "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" and claiming responsibility for the murders of several people : "'We are commencing a ruthless insurgent struggle against the anti-Ukrainian regime of traitors and Moscow’s cads, and from now on, we shall talk to them only in the language of arms until their complete destruction'."Their Facebook page claimed:"'We shall always provide protection and support for the unknown patriots who took upon themselves a hard work of cleansing the Ukrainian land of internal occupants like Buzina and Kalashnikov'."More: C14, UNA-UNSO

Details
Oleksandr Peklushenko on March 12, 2015 was found dead in his house in the village of Sonyachne, near Zaporizhzhya city. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and authorities said initial inquiries pointed to suicide, but other theories were being investigated including murder. Five other pro-Yanukovych officials also died in mysterious circumstances in the past 6 weeks before his death.

One of the detainees, Andrei Medvedko was active Maidan fighter, as well as the head of the Pechersk district organization "Svoboda" in Kiev and was an activist and one of the authors [61] its most radical wing - the organization "C14" in the late 2014 briefly served ATO area in the Interior Ministry battalion "Kiev-2." Another Denis Polishchuk, also a war veteran of the Donbass batallion, nominated for election to the Verkhovna Rada in 2012 from a political party Ukrainian National Assembly [63]. Yevhen Karas is a soldier of the "Harpun" volunteer battalion.