A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 According to the military who were guarding the photogrammetric center, for three days before the attack the entire area around the military unit had been controlled by ‘the Crimean self-defense’ and the Russian military. The tower where the warrant o7 cer Kokurin was killed and Ukrainian o7 cers were wounded was under the R re from below, as evidenced by the bullet holes in the sheeting of the tower. The Ministry of the Interior of the Crimea reported that the Ukrainian military man was shot by an ‘unknown sniper’, who allegedly was shooting at the representatives of ‘the Crimean self-defense’ too. ‘According to preliminary reports, the shots were going in two directions from one place. An unknown sniper from the window of a building under construction located in close proximity to the military unit shot at the representatives of the ‘self-defense’, who were checking the un+ nished building after a report on the presence of armed men there, and he shot in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit located nearby.’ From the statement of the Interior Ministry of the Crimea, Ukrinform, March 18, 2014. The deceased Sergey Kokurin had a 4-year-old son, and his wife was expecting their second child. Stanislav Karachevsky The murder occured on April 6, 2014 in the village Novofedorovka in Crimea, in a hos- tel of the Ukrainian military personnel who served at the Saki base; the military were leaving for the mainland Ukraine. That evening, Major Stanislav Karachevsky, 32, helped Captain Artem Yarmolenko pack things, as they were getting ready to be moved to mainland Ukraine. He was going home with another friend. They passed the checkpoint of the military unit, where the armed invaders of Russia kept watch. According to witnesses, the military quarreled ‘on the basis of personal animosity’. The Russians were armed, the Ukrainian military were not. Stanislav Karachevsky 57