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Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU’s Ashton phone tape (videos)
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 6 March 2014The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.
“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind
the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the
new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation.
“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick
that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.
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.
Met in Kiev with deputy speaker of Rada and head of Regions Party fraction. It is important to form quickly new government.
— Urmas Paet ( xLT Urmaspaet) 25 Février 2014
Paet also recalled his conversation with a doctor who treated
those shot by snipers in Kiev. She said that both protesters and
police were shot at by the same people.
“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga
[Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the
people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among
policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the
same snipers killing people from both sides,” the Estonian
FM stressed.
Ashton reacted to the information by saying: “Well,
yeah…that’s, that’s terrible.”
“So that she then also showed me some photos she said that as
a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the
same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new
coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly
happened,” Paet said.
Olga Bogomolets was the main doctor for the Maidan mobile clinic
when protests turned violent in Kiev. She treated the gravely
injured and helped organized their transportation to neighboring
countries, who had expressed a willingness to treat those with
severe wounds. From the outset, Olga blamed the injuries and
deaths on snipers. She turned down the position of Vice Prime
Minister of Ukraine for Humanitarian Affairs offered by the
coup-appointed regime.
The Estonian FM has described the whole sniper issue as
“disturbing” and added, “it already discredits from
the very beginning” the new Ukrainian power.
His overall impressions of what he saw during his one-day trip to
Kiev are “sad,” Paet said during the conversation.
He stressed that the Ukrainian people don’t trust the Maidan
leaders, with all the opposition politicians slated to join the
new government “having dirty past.”
The file was reportedly uploaded to the web by officers of
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) loyal to ousted President
Viktor Yanukovich who hacked Paet’s and Ashton’s phones.
94 people were killed and another 900 injured during the standoff
between police and protesters at Maidan Saquare in Kiev last
month.
