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Ivan Katchanovski Profile picture
@I_Katchanovski
Nov 21, 2022 • 33 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
Judges & jury at Maidan massacre trial in Ukraine start deliberating verdict which is expected in 1 year. Overwhelming evidence revealed by trial shows beyond any reasonable doubt that Maidan protesters were massacred not by police but by Maidan snipers 1/ researchgate.net/publication/35…
51 out of 72 wounded #Maidan protesters, with whose shooting Berkut is charged & whose testimonies were revealed at trial, testified at #trial & investigation that they were shot by snipers from Maidan-controlled buildings or witnessed snipers there. 2/
Several dozen prosecution & Maidan witnesses along with dozens of defense witnesses testified at Maidan massacre trial & investigation in #Ukraine about snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings shooting police & Maidan protesters during Maidan massacre. 3/
7 self-admitted Maidan snipers testified for Maidan massacre trial & investigation & in TV documentaries that groups of Maidan snipers received orders from specific Maidan leaders to massacre both Maidan protesters & police & saw Maidan snipers fulfilling these orders. 4/
Videos shown at Maidan massacre trial in #Ukraine showed far-right linked & other groups of Maidan snipers moving into, looking for, changing & leaving shooting positions & shooting at #Maidan protesters & police from Maidan-controlled buildings. 5/
Videos show shooting by Maidan snipers at protesters from room of far-right Svoboda deputy in Hotel Ukraina. Protester testified that this was "our sniper." BBC correspondent said that this sniper was wearing Maidan-style helmet. 6/ academia.edu/video/El228l
Videos show far-right-linked group of Maidan snipers entering Hotel Ukraina & shooting in direction of protesters from German ZDF & ARD TV room. Deputy head of parliament from far-right Svoboda accompanied them. ARD hides its long video filmed there. 7/
Videos show Maidan protesters pointing to shooting by snipers at them from Hotel Ukraina. Protester testified that he was wounded there & then by sniper from the hotel. Government ballistic expert also found this. Berkut was filmed not shooting then. 8/
In videos of killing of Maidan protester, protesters said that he was shot from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina.
German reporter & wife of killed protester also said this.
Government ballistic expert determined that bullet trajectory was from hotel. 9/
Spilne & CNN videos recorded Maidan snipers group looking for shooting position in Hotel Ukraina & then shooting. Spilne reporter identified them as Maidan protesters & testified that he met them there after massacre start. CNN didn't report these snipers.
Belgian TV video shows bullet hitting tree right behind Maidan protesters, who turn towards Hotel Ukraina & ask snipers not to shoot them. It shows they were lured to massacre site by 2 Maidan protesters. One was filmed in hotel with far-right snipers. 11/ academia.edu/video/El228l
Ukraine government investigation denied that there were snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings & didn't investigate them despite overwhelming evidence. Nobody is arrested or convicted for Maidan massacre of protesters & police almost 9 years afterwards 12/ jordanrussiacenter.org/news/the-maida…
Synchronized videos show that specific times & directions of shooting by Berkut police didn't coincide with killings of specific Maidan protesters. Videos & bullet holes show that Berkut shot at walls, trees, poles, ground & Maidan snipers in buildings 13/
Maidan massacre trial in #Ukraine revealed no evidence of order to massacre Maidan protesters by then President Yanukovych & his Internal Affairs, police & SBU chiefs, commanders & members. There are no admissions of massacre by them. 14/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Computer-based ballistic examination by government forensic experts found that bullets extracted from killed protesters, trees & Hotel Ukraina didn't match police database of bullet samples from Kalashnikov assault rifles of Berkut, incl. those charged with Maidan massacre. 15/
Forensic medical examinations by #Ukrainian government experts determined that almost all Maidan protesters facing Berkut on ground were shot not from straight & front directions but from steep & back or sideways directions. 16/ academia.edu/62728119/The_M…
But self-proclaimed experts continue to propagate fake news concerning Maidan massacre in Ukraine 17/
Even Prosecutor General Office of #Ukraine investigation determined that almost half of wounded Maidan protesters were not shot from government-controlled sectors, i.e. they were shot from Maidan-controlled areas. No one is charged with their wounding. 18/
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Maidan massacre trial in #Ukraine revealed that prosecution stopped trial-ordered investigative experiment after government forensic experts determined that first few Maidan protesters were shot from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & Music Conservatory 19/
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But @nytimes & other media continue to propagate fake news concerning Maidan massacre in Ukraine: "protests in central Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, went on until police cracked down violently in February 2014, killing scores." 21/ nytimes.com/live/2022/11/2…
My academic studies video appendix with numerous witness testimonies concerning Maidan snipers was admitted as evidence and shown at Maidan massacre trial in #Ukraine. I was not involved in this or in this trial. My studies are publicly available. 22/
My study, "The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine," that I presented at Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association in San Francisco 23/
researchgate.net/publication/26…
My peer-reviewed article. entitled "The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine" 24/ researchgate.net/publication/33…
My chapter, entitled "The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: A Summary of Analysis, Evidence and Findings," in "The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, the West and Russia" book published by @routledgebooks 25/ researchgate.net/publication/28…
All but few shields & helmets of killed & wounded Maidan protesters, many bullets extracted from their bodies, several trees with bullets or bullet holes, recordings of online streams & security cameras in Maidan-controlled buildings & areas "disappeared" during investigation 29/
Maidan massacre trial in Ukraine revealed tampering with key evidence during government investigation. Bullets of many killed & wounded Maidan protesters miraculously appeared, disappeared, changed size, shape & packages or were not sealed. 30/
31/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1594837…
Somebody tried to censor my tweets concerning revelations from Maidan massacre trial. It's revealing that some have problem not with mass murder & its misrepresentation & dire consequences for #Ukraine & world but with scholarly research of the massacre by Ukrainian academic. 32/ Image
In spite of evidence, which was revealed by Ukraine trial & investigation and showed beyond reasonable doubt that Berkut police did not massacre Maidan protesters, trial verdict that is expected in Fall might not be based on such evidence but on Zelensky administration order. 33/
Ukrainian courts lack independence from executive branch & often base their decisions in such high-profile and highly politicized cases, like Maidan massacre trial, on directives from presidential administration. 34/
All five Berkut policemen, who are on trial for Maidan massacre in Ukraine, were released by Kyiv court on order of Zelensky and exchanged to Donbas separatists within several months of expected verdict in 2019. 35/
Neo-Nazis attacked, disrupted & threatened Maidan massacre trial. Because of directives from Zelensky & far right attacks, it would be difficult for judges & jury during #UkraineRussiaWar to acquit in absentia 3 Berkut policemen exchanged by #Zelensky to Donbas separatists. 36/

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Jul 19
Iryna Farion, far-right professor of Lviv university & ex-member of Ukraine parliament from Svoboda party is seriously wounded during assassination attempt. She pressed to eliminate Russian language & was recently fired for going after Russian speakers in neo-Nazi-led Azov brigade.

"President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that doctors are fighting for Iryna Farion's life, her condition is serious. The attack on her was classified as attempted murder." pravda.com.ua/news/2024/07/1…Image
Maidan snipers were reported to be in Farion's room in far-right Svoboda controlled Hotel Ukraina during Maidan massacre in Ukraine. Ukrainian media report revealed that BBC journalist saw Security Service of Ukraine warning not to enter hotel room 1109.

One of Svoboda leaders admitted that Iryna Farion, then a member of the Ukrainian parliament from this far right party, lived in this suite at the time of the Maidan massacre. BBC correspondent was quoted saying that after his crew was shot from the 11th floor of this hotel he went to this floor and saw a note with a warning not to enter the suite number 1109 because of a request from the Security Service of Ukraine. This was the same suite which was searched by Maidan activists.
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This photo of suspected assassin of Farion is published by Lviv & other Telegram channels. Her neighbor said that similar dressed person was sitting near entrance to her apartment building in Lviv for the last 2-3 weeks. She was shot in the head & is on life support in critical condition.Image
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Jun 15
Now @NYT publishes drafts of Ukraine Russia peace deal that was close to signing in spring 2022 but still omits that Boris Johnson & Biden administration blocked it. NYT cites statement from viral video that I posted: “We managed to find a very real compromise,” Oleksandr Chalyi, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, said at a panel discussion in Geneva last December. “We were very close in the middle of April, in the end of April, to finalize our war with some peaceful settlement.” But it omits other sources which revealed this peace deal & which I posted for more than 2 years & which had some 25,000,000 views but were deliberately denied or not reported by the media. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@NYT This statement is finally reported by @NYT but it omits that it became viral after I posted it several months ago, and my tweet had some 2,000,000 views.
This revelation by ex Israeli prime minister was not reported by @NYT even though it had some 20,000,000 views. Fake Community Note is still there even after head & members of Ukrainian delegation at peace talks confirmed it.
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Jun 13
"Canada Says It Won’t Give Arms To Azov, Despite U.S. Policy Change. “Our position remains that we are not – nor will we – be providing support to Azov and affiliated entities.” Ivan Katchanovski, a professor specializing in Ukrainian politics at the University of Ottawa, told The Maple that both the Azov Brigade and the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade are “basically part of the same Azov Movement, which is led by [Biletsky’s] neo-Nazi party.”

There is no evidence, he said, that any Western country has banned military aid from going to the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. He added that DND’s statements about not giving support to the Azov Brigade should also be taken with a large grain of salt.

Katchanovski also cast doubt on the U.S. State Department’s claim that Azov has not committed human rights abuses. The National Corps party, Azov’s political wing, has been involved in attacks against Roma people and other violent actions.

In 2018, a U.S. State Department report noted that a Ukrainian group established with support from the National Corps party “attacked and destroyed a Romani camp in Kyiv after its residents failed to respond to their ultimatum to leave the area within 24 hours.”

The U.S. State Department, Katchanovski said, has tried to deflect concerns about its recent move by misleadingly suggesting that Azov Brigade is a newly created formation with no relation to its predecessor units.

“This is quite unbelievable,” Katchanovski said. “This is open support and endorsement by the Biden administration of open neo-Nazis in Ukraine.” readthemaple.com/canada-insists…Image
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"Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) says it will maintain its stated policy of not providing military support to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi led Azov Brigade, despite reports this week that the United States has lifted a ban on weapons transfers to the far-right military unit.

“Our position remains that we are not – nor will we – be providing support to Azov and affiliated entities,” DND spokesperson Kened Sadiku wrote in an email to The Maple on Tuesday, echoing the ministry’s previous statements about the military unit."readthemaple.com/canada-insists…
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Jun 12
Leader of neo-Nazi Azov movement, which is armed by Biden administration, called "heroes" by Zelensky, Boris Johnson & media & greeted by top universities, wrote that Nazi ideology is "great idea," "[slur for Jews] dominance of power and economy," Arab, Asian, Black & Muslim migrants threaten "White European" countries, including Ukraine, "White race" is "superior," "historical mission of our Nation... is to head and lead the White Peoples of the world in the last crusade for their existence a march against the Semitic-led subhumans," "Jewishness as an economic and political parasite," "Social-Nationalism is based on" "Sociality, Racism, Great Power," & combines Nationalism & National Socialism, etc.

He never denounced any of these statements which were published by him in Ukrainian on website of his neo-Nazi Patriot of Ukraine or in collection of his articles, entitled "Word of White Leader." These archived publications are publicly available but are omitted, denied or whitewashed.

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Quote from his article in 2013 collection, entitled "Word of White Leader" (p. 26): "Therefore, we claim that we have developed the correct worldview and we have an ideology under the correct name of Social-Nationalism. But only then will our ideology come to life, our name will only then become great, when there will be thousands of young fanatical apostles who will lead the fight regardless of their own well-being and even life. Nationalism and National Socialism are therefore great ideas that they had just such apostles." web.archive.org/web/2014092404…Image
Quote from his article: "The historical mission of our Nation in this turning point of the century is to head and lead the White Peoples of the world in the last crusade for their existence, a march against the Semitic-led subhumans."

Media, info warriors such as Likhachov & Wikipedia whitewashers of far-right in Ukraine denied that this was his statement simply because he denied that he said this & that he is neo-Nazi, anti-Semite & racist. In fact, this statement is from his article, entitled "Ukrainian racial Social-Nationalism is the ideology of the "Patriot of Ukraine" Organization." The archived version of his article with this statement is publicly available via the link provided.web.archive.org/web/2018092406…
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Jun 4
Now male dual citizens of US, Canada, etc. & Ukraine are banned from leaving Ukraine & can be conscripted by force with de facto US/West approval: "US Embassy in Ukraine: men with dual citizenship will no longer be able to leave the country. The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned that Ukraine has revoked the "residence abroad" exception that previously allowed certain Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60 to leave the country.

Source: US Embassy in Ukraine
With this change, men with dual citizenship, including those living in the US, will no longer be able to leave the country.

According to the message of the embassy, ​​Ukrainian legislation does not recognize dual citizenship. Therefore, American-Ukrainian persons with dual citizenship, while in Ukraine, are considered exclusively as citizens of Ukraine, and they are subject to the rights and obligations of citizens of Ukraine. That is, under martial law in Ukraine, men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country.

The embassy noted that previously persons with dual American-Ukrainian citizenship of this group could enter Ukraine and then leave it if they deregistered their place of residence in Ukraine and registered their place of residence in the United States. As of June 1, this exception was canceled.

Literally: "If you are in Ukraine and cannot leave the country, shelter in place and obey all local regulations.

If you are not currently in Ukraine, we strongly recommend that male US citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 who also hold Ukrainian citizenship or are applying for Ukrainian citizenship and do not wish to remain in Ukraine indefinitely refrain from any travel to of Ukraine. There is an extremely high risk that you will not be allowed to leave even with a US passport."
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US government to dual US & Ukraine citizens" "The U.S. Embassy is limited in our ability to influence Ukrainian law, including the application of martial law and the mobilization law to Ukrainian citizens. If you are in Ukraine and cannot leave the country, shelter in place and obey all local orders. If you are not currently in Ukraine, we strongly recommend against all travel to Ukraine by U.S. citizen males aged 18 to 60 who also have Ukrainian citizenship or a claim to Ukrainian citizenship and who do not wish to stay in Ukraine indefinitely. There is an extremely high risk you will not be allowed to depart, even with a U.S. passport." ua.usembassy.gov/message-for-u-…Image
"Ukrainians with dual citizenship will no longer be allowed to leave the country and may be drafted into the Armed Forces. This new regulation, which came into effect on June 1, 2024, impacts American-Ukrainian dual citizens, among others." kyivpost.com/post/33792
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May 29
Presentation and Q&As by Jefferey Sachs and me at Canadian Foreign Policy Institute concerning Ukraine war, its origins & prospects for peace is now available in German.
And in French
And in Spanish
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