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KIEV SNIPERS HIRED BY MAIDAN LEADERS - LEAKED EU'S ASHTON PHONE TAPE
Published time: March 05, 2014 12:41
Edited time: March 05, 2014 14:19
An anti-government protester sit near the bodies of two demonstrators
killed by a sniper during clashes with the police in the center of
Kiev on February 20, 2014.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
Clashes, EU, Police, Ukraine
The 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," 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 at the peak of clashes between the pro-EU
protesters and security forces in the Ukrainian capital.
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.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8
http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/
Published time: March 05, 2014 12:41
Edited time: March 05, 2014 14:19
An anti-government protester sit near the bodies of two demonstrators
killed by a sniper during clashes with the police in the center of
Kiev on February 20, 2014.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)
Clashes, EU, Police, Ukraine
The 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," 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 at the peak of clashes between the pro-EU
protesters and security forces in the Ukrainian capital.
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.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8
http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/