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What happened in Ukraine before 27 May 2020?
Summary
A look back at a run of violent incidents reported across Ukraine in the days before 27 May 2020, alongside two foreign-policy developments.
What did readers in Ukraine face in the days leading up to 27 May 2020? A series of grim reports, several involving shootings and alleged abuse of power.
On 23 May 2020, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the independent deputy Valeriy Davydenko, was found shot dead in Kyiv. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that he had been found dead in his office with a gunshot wound to the head.
The same day, reports emerged from Kaharlyk, in Kyiv Oblast, that police officers had beaten two people at a station and raped a woman several times.
A few days earlier, reports from Zhytomyr Oblast described a gunman who killed seven people after a drunken quarrel during a fishing trip. The perpetrator was arrested afterwards.
Beyond Ukraine
On 26 May 2020, the United States Africa Command accused Russia of deploying fighter jets to eastern Libya to support Russian mercenaries allied to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who was locked in a civil war with the UN-recognised Government of National Accord.
On 21 May 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that Hungarian authorities had circumvented EU law by holding Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers in unlawful detention at a camp near the Serbian border.
