The Ukrainian Navy's military prosecutor's office has studied the materials of the incident involving demonstrators at the Hrafska Quay in Sevastopol on July 5 and sees no reason to file criminal cases against navy personnel.
Valerii Saratov, the head of the Sevastopol municipal council, announced this at an extraordinary session of the municipal council that was convened on July 22 in connection with the incident.
A representative of the municipal council's press service said that the municipal council received a letter containing the prosecutor's response on July 21.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, supporters of the Russian Bloc party, the Natalia Vitrenko Bloc, and the public organization called the Russian Community of Sevastopol clashed with Ukrainian naval personnel in Sevastopol on July 5 while the naval personnel were installing a memorial commemorating the 90th anniversary of the raising of Ukrainian flags on the ships of Russian imperial Black Sea fleet in 1918.
The protesters formed a chain around the naval personnel, removed a memorial plaque from the wall in the Hrafska Quay and threw it into the sea.
Police detained five residents of Sevastopol on suspicion of hooliganism and later released four of them.
The Sevastopol municipal council called on the Prosecutor-General's Office on July 22 to take action against members of the Ukrainian naval command for allowing the clash to take place.
