The Guardian is all over Liz Wahl's public resignation from RT, but no mention anywhere in the western media of this explosive revelation - that Ukrainian demonstrators were shot, not by police but by snipers hired by the goons on the Maidan.
BREAKING NEWS: Leaked: Kiev Snipers Hired By Maidan Leaders – Estonian FM To EU’s Ashton
The Estonian Foreign Ministry has confirmed the recording of his conversation with EU foreign policy chief is authentic. Urmas Paet said that snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders
5
March 2014
Paet
told RIA-Novosti news agency that he talked to Catherine Ashton last
week right after retiring from Kiev, but refrained from further
comments, saying that he has to “listen to the tape first.”
“It’s
very disappointing that such surveillance took place altogether. It’s
not a coincidence that this conversation was uploaded [to the web]
today,” he stressed.
“My
conversation with Ashton took place last week right after I returned
from Kiev. At that time I was already in Estonia,” Paet added.
Paet
also gave a press conference about the leaked tape on Wednesday,
saying that the dramatic events in Kiev, which resulted in people
being killed, must become the subject of an independent
investigation.
The
Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also issued a statement on its
website, saying that the recording of the leaked telephone
conversation between Paet and Ashton is “authentic.”
The phone call took place on February 26 after Estonia’s FM returned from his visit to Ukraine, which took place soon after the end of street violence in Kiev, the ministry added.
“We
reject the claim that Paet was giving an assessment of the
opposition’s involvement in the violence," the statement
stressed, adding that the FM was only providing an overview of what
he had heard during his Kiev visit.
RT
has contacted Ashton’s spokesperson, Maja Kocijancic, who said “we
don’t comment on leaked phone conversations.”
The
US government declined to comment on the leaked phone conversation
between EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and the Estonian
foreign affairs minister.
State
Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said she had nothing to say on the
issue, ITAR-TASS reported. However, she did accuse Russia of leaking
the tape, stating that “this was another example of how the
Russians work.”
The
call took place after Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet visited
Kiev on February 25, following the peak of clashes between the pro-EU
protesters and security forces in the Ukrainian capital.
It
was reportedly uploaded to the web by officers of the Security
Service of Ukraine (SBU) loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovich
who hacked Paet’s and Ashton’s phones.
During
the conversation, Paet stressed that “there is now stronger and
stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not
Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition.”
According
to the Estonian FM, “all the evidence shows” that the “same
snipers” at Maidan were shooting at people from both sides – the
police and the protesters.
Ashton
reacted to the information by saying: “Well, yeah…that’s,
that’s terrible,” adding that the matter is worth investigating.
94
people were killed and another 900 injured during the standoff
between police and protesters at Maidan Square in Kiev last month.
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