Police detain accomplice to Oleshko’s murder, - Abroskin. PHOTO

Police have detained a former fighter of Tornado riot police with the fake Europol ID who is an accomplice to the murder of Donbas battalion member Vitalii Oleshko (nom de guerre Sarmat) in Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region.

Censor.NET reports referring to the first Deputy Head of the National Police Viacheslav Abroskin’s Facebook page.

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"This Europol pseudo-policeman, a former Tornado fighter, a resident of Dnipropetrovsk, whom we suspect of organizing the murder of Vitalii Oleshko, was detained last night during operational search activities in Lviv. For the past five months, he has been hiding in various regions of our country, constantly changing the place of his residence," the message reads.

As reported earlier, July 31, 2018, Donbas war veteran Vitalii Oleshko aka Sarmat was gunned down by unidentified individual.

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Later, the police detained five suspects.