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Two police and crime stories from early June 2020
Summary
A look back at a police gang exposed in Pavlohrad and a shooting at an Odesa market that preceded it.
What did the news from Ukrainian regions look like on 4 June 2020? Two stories stood out, both concerning public order.
On 4 June 2020, a gang of police officers was exposed in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. It had been organised by Dmytro Serdiuk, who headed the local police station.
Two days earlier, on 2 June 2020, shooting broke out at the Seventh Kilometre market in Odesa. Two people were wounded, and ten people were detained.
The two cases were separate, and the reports did not link them. Taken together, they show the kind of events that drew attention on those dates: an armed incident at one of Ukraine's best-known markets, and an allegation that the people charged with enforcing the law in a provincial town had themselves formed a criminal group.
