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On February 20, an amateur radio operator recorded the conversations between President Yanukovych’s snipers, who were trying to identify the other snipers. As detailed in the ADR Monitor program the radio traffic between Yanukovych’s snipers show them discussing the fact that someone is shooting at unarmed people (ADR Monitor 2014). The taped conversation between Yanukovych’s snipers follows below:

1st government sniper: Hey guys, you over there, to the right from the Hotel Ukraina.

2nd government sniper: Who shot? Our people do not shoot at unarmed people.

1st sniper: Guys, there sits a spotter aiming at me. Who is he aiming at there — in the corner? Look!

2nd sniper: On the roof of the yellow building. On top of the cinema, on top of the cinema.

1st sniper: Someone has shot him. But it wasn’t us.

2nd sniper: Miron, Miron, there are even more snipers? And who are they? (ADR Monitor 2014)

To date, the snipers potentially responsible for the massacre have not been identified or even tracked down, much less brought to justice.

Dr. Oleksandr Lisowoi, a doctor from Hospital No. 6 in Kiev, responsible for treating the various people, protestor, and police who were shot by the snipers. He confirmed the fact that, “the wounded we treated had the same type of bullet wounds, I am now speaking of the type of bullets that we have surgically removed from the bodies — they were identical” (ADR Monitor 2014).

The German reporter from ADR Monitor , with the help of an independent weapons specialist, then conducted his own investigation. Utilizing film footage from February 20, the ADR Monitor reporter and the weapons specialist determined that the direction of sniper fire, which had killed both protestors and police, had come from behind the protestors and not from the government’s snipers that were positioned in front of the protestors. The weapons specialist, utilizing a device which emitted a green laser, traced the path of the fired bullets directly to the Hotel Ukraina. The Hotel Ukraina on the day of the sniper attacks was also under the control of the Maidan security forces.

Dr Katchanovski’s (2014) report would corroborate the direction of the sniper shots as coming from behind the Maidan protestors, via the following eyewitness accounts:

•A Swedish neo-Nazi volunteer confirms that the police units on the Maidan were shot with live ammunition from the Conservatory and the Trade Union buildings before 9:00am

•Maidan eyewitnesses among the protesters said that organized groups from Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in Western Ukraine arrived on the Maidan and moved to the Music Conservatory on the night of the February 20, massacre, and that some of them were armed with rifles

•The head of the medical service of the Euromaidan and other medics reported that both protesters and the police were shot by similar ammunition, specifically 7.62mm caliber bullets and buckshot (pellets), and that they had similar types of wounds

On March 5, 2014, a recording of a telephone conversation between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton dated February 26, 2014, was released by unknown parties, to the internet. The leaked conversation corroborated the charge that Ukraine’s coup-installed government was possibly behind the sniper shootings. The leaked recording reveals that Paet had received information from the chief Maidan doctor, Dr. Olga Bogomolets, who was deeply troubled by the results of her surgeries.

Dr. Bogomolets, formerly the personal physician to the Orange Revolution’s first President, Viktor Yushchenko, and who had received an award from the CIA and the George Soros-funded Radio Liberty, had passionately urged her students to take part in the Euromaidan protest (Madsen 2014). Dr. Bogomolets had volunteered her medical services for the Maidan activists and, after the sniper shootings, performed surgery on the victims and examined the bodies. Dr. Bogomolets discovered upon extracting the snipers’ bullets that the same bullets that had killed protestors had also killed police. Dr. Bogomolets conveyed to Paet that she believed Maidan elements were directly responsible for the sniper attacks and as the coup-installed government refused to follow up on the sniper attacks, she grew more suspicious.

The leaked conversation between Paet and Ashton had Paet conveying his concern about the snipers:

Paet: All the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides. . Some photos that showed it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it is really disturbing that now the new coalition they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened. So there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.

Ashton: “I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh.

Paet: “It already discredit[s] this new coalition.”

The leaked conversation was later confirmed by Estonian Foreign Minister Paet, but Ms. Ashton and other EU representatives have, to date, refused to comment.

Dr. Katchanovski’s explanation for what seemed like irrational shootings on the Maidan, when viewed through the optics of Cui Bono , however, turn out to be quite rational. Dr. Katchanovski’s (2014) observations were that:

•Snipers killed unarmed protestors and targeted foreign journalists but did not kill or shoot at Maidan Leaders, Maidan Self-Defense and Right Sektor headquarters or the Maidan spokespeople who were on stage and thus the most visible

•The police retreated as a result of the shootings

•President Yanukovych and his other top government officials fled Ukraine as a result of the shootings

•Maidan leaders, in fact, rose to power after the shootings

•The EU subsequently got its Association Agreement

Katchanovski (2014) concludes based upon the findings of his report:

The evidence indicates that an alliance of elements of the Maidan opposition and the far right was involved in the mass killing of both protesters and the police, while the involvement of the special police units in killing of some of the protesters cannot be entirely ruled out based on publicly available evidence. The new government that came to power largely as a result of the massacre falsified its investigation, while the Ukrainian media helped to misrepresent the mass killing of the protesters and the police. The evidence indicates that the far right played a key role in the violent overthrow of the government in Ukraine. (Katchanovski 2014)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also stated that Moscow had gathered evidence, that pointed to Ukraine’s Right Sector and neo-Nazi organizations as the parties responsible for the sniper shootings on the Maidan, as well as numerous violent clashes that took place in Kiev. Further, Foreign Minister Lavrov stated that Moscow had made its findings known to its Western counterparts. Mr. Lavrov was quick to add, “I cannot say I'm 100 percent sure, but there are a slew of facts that indicate just as much. Of course, they should be double-checked.”

The Russian authorities and members of parliament have also called for the EU to create a commission to investigate the killings on the Maidan and possible Ukrainian opposition involvement. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s UN envoy, further encouraged an investigation, calling on UN Deputy Secretary Jan Eliasson and Human Rights Commissioner Ivan Simonovic to persuade authorities in Kiev to conduct a thorough investigation.