The European and American public are being systematically lied to about the Ukraine crisis

Kiev snipers were shooting from building controlled by Maidan forces – Ukraine’s ex-security chief

Former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service has confirmed allegations that snipers who killed dozens of people during the violent unrest in Kiev operated from a building controlled by the opposition on Maidan square.

RT,

13 March, 2014

Shots that killed both civilians and police officers were fired from the Philharmonic Hall building in Ukraine’s capital, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine Aleksandr Yakimenko told Russia 1 channel. The building was under full control of the opposition and particularly the so-called Commandant of Maidan self-defense Andrey Parubiy who after the coup was appointed as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Yakimenko added.

Furthermore the former security chief believes that Parubiy has been in contact with US Special Forces that could have coordinated the assault.

“Shots came from the Philharmonic Hall. Maidan Commandant Parubiy was responsible for this building. Snipers and people with automatic weapons were ‘working’ from this building on February 20. They supported the assault on the Interior Ministry forces on the ground who were already demoralized and have, in fact, fled,” Yakimenko said in an interview with Russian television.

The police officers were chased by a group of rioters armed with various weapons and at that point, Yakimenko says snipers fired at pursuers themselves.

“When the first wave of shootings ended, many have witnessed 20 people leaving the building,” former chief says, noting that they were well-equipped and were carrying military style bag for carrying sniper and assault rifles with optical sights.

Not only the law enforcers, but people from the opposition’s Freedom, Right Sector, Fatherland, and Klitschko’s UDAR party have also seen this, Yakimenko claims.

The former security head also said that according to the intelligence those snipers could be foreigners, including mercenaries from former Yugoslavia as well former Special Forces employees from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.

Yakimenko claims that Parubiy was part of a group that was heavily influenced by the people associated with the US secret services. “These were the forces that carried out everything that they were told by their leadership – the United States,” Yakimenko explained, claiming that Maidan leaders practically lived in the US embassy.

There is an excellent artlcle, which I can recommend, The Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told

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In this video we're going to provide you with compelling evidence that the crimes against humanity committed in Kiev earlier this year were in fact committed by the new coalition government and that officials in the E.U. and the United States knew full well who committed these crimes and that they are protecting and financially supporting the real criminals.

On February 20th of 2013 the world was shocked by video footage of snipers firing on protesters in Kiev Ukraine. Twenty one people were murdered, and it was widely assumed that President Victor Yanukovich and his supporters were behind the attacks. However a phone conversation between EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton and Estonia's foreign minister Urmas Paet leaked to the public on March 5th reveals that the snipers in were actually from the new coalition government, and that Western diplomats knew this and covered it up.

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Urmas Paet: "All the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among police men and people in the street, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides."

Cathy Ashton: "Well that's, yeah..."

Urmas Paet: "And she also showed me some photos and she said that has medical doctor, she can say that it is the same handwriting..."

Cathy Ashton: "Yeah..."

Urmas Paet: "Same type of bullets... and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. So that there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition."

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The following article lays out clearly the fascist nature of the current regime that has seized power in Kiev

Who's who in Ukraine's new [semi-fascist] government

How will the people of Kiev react when they finally know the truth?

Lack of action over sniper killings tears at Ukrainian hearts

The bloodiest days of Ukraine's revolution are still shrouded in a dark mystery that is shaking the new Government even as it struggles to defend national unity in the face of Russian expansionism.

NZ Herald,

13 March , 2014

The killing of dozens of protesters and police officers in the streets of Kiev in sniper shootings and other violence has left a deep scar on the national consciousness that will not heal until the killers are brought to justice.

With mourners lighting candles and laying flowers every day on the barricades where some 100 victims fell, many Ukrainians say the Government is dragging its feet and even trying to cover up what really happened.

"I get the feeling they're trying to kick this into the long grass," said 29-year-old Igor Bulbas, as he came to pay homage to the fallen on the improvised cemetery on a Kiev street.

Among the hundreds of mourners was also Maxim Kucher, 35, an architect who took part in the three months of protests that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.

"I've heard a lot of talk but so far I haven't seen anyone getting punished," he said, with signs and photos draped with rosary beads around him praising the "Heavenly Hundred" who died.

Gennady Moskal, a senior lawmaker and a former Deputy Interior Minister, is leading the criticism of an apparently slow-moving investigation.

Moskal has accused the new authorities of creating confusion when in fact Ukrainian security personnel were responsible for the killings.

The former police general has rubbished comments from interim Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who laid the blame for sniper shootings on "a third party and it was not Ukrainian" - a hint at possible Russian involvement.

The new head of the state security service, Valentin Nalivaichenko, has also said that the snipers operating in Ukraine were "probably foreign citizens" and that talk of his agency's involvement "was a lie".

But Moskal said that was just an easy way out.

"He hasn't changed the Interior Ministry hierarchy so who is going to investigate the crimes? Are they going to investigate themselves?" he said in an explosive interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia journal.

"It's easier to blame everything on a third party and do nothing," he said, also accusing the new leadership of failing to apprehend Yanukovych as he fled the country even though he "personally gave the orders for special forces operations" which might have led to the killings.

"It is clear that our Ukrainian snipers with their guns were at shooting positions when people were killed," Moskal was quoted as saying.

"Special forces commanders are now going around telling journalists that it's not clear who was shooting. Who will believe their tales? Why has no one taken the weapons of these sniper groups?"

Journalist and activist Olga Khudetska wrote on her Facebook page that in any case the focus on the snipers is "extremely convenient" as it is overshadowing the "hundreds and thousands of security officers" involved in beating protesters, kidnapping them and killing them in other ways.

Fanning the flames of controversy further, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet in a leaked phone call with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, was heard conveying a rumour that "somebody from the new coalition might have been behind the killings".

Russia has been quick to seize on the doubts raised by that call and appealed for the United Nations to lead an investigation, while the Council of Europe is planning an international inquiry with Ukrainian authorities.

The protesters on the Maidan - the crucible of Ukraine's revolution - have little patience for diplomatic back-and-forth and vow to stay until the truth over the deaths of their fellow activists is established.

"Everyone knows who did this, they're just staying silent for now," said Mykola Prokhorov, a sullen 25-year-old "self-defence" security guard who patrols the protest camp in the capital.

"First we'll deal with the situation in Crimea, then we'll deal with this," he said.

But as she paid her respects on the bloody barricades, Marina Stepanenko - who lives in Moscow - said the country could not move on without finding out exactly what happened.

"It's important to know the truth."

See also - Russia, Ukraine feud over mysterious sniper carnage in Kiev