Employees of special forces Berkut

Employees of special forces Berkut formed a corridor to give possibility for convoy car to go out from the yard of Pechersk District Court, in Kiev, on Friday, August 5, 2011. Paddy wagon, which transported arrested former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, managed to leave the yard of Kiev Pechersk District Court and to go to jail. Supporters of Timoshenko blocked traffic so that the paddy wagon could not leave Kreschatik. While militiamen cleared the road for the movement of paddy wagon, the fights between people and militia officers happened on a road. Paddy wagon was accompanied by about 300 officers of special forces "Berkut". On August 5 Pechersk district court of Kiev the judge of Pechersk district court of Kiev decided to change a preventive measure of recognizance not to leave a town to detention. After the announcement of decision Timoshenko was taken out of the courtroom of Kiev Pechersk District Court by the employees of judicial militia "Grifon" and special forces "Berkut". Photo by Vladimir Gontar / UNIAN