“I am guilty and fully aware of my guilt,” Ryabchuk quotes “Strana.ua” in his Telegram channel.

He noted that he was asking to be sent "not to a guardhouse, but to a pre-trial detention center."

On the night of January 27, at the Southern Machine-Building Plant in the Dnieper, a soldier of the National Guard shot a guard from a machine gun, five people were killed, five more were injured.

Among the dead is a civilian, a woman born in 1986.

After the incident, a case of negligence was initiated against the leadership of the National Guard and a criminal case was initiated into the shooting.