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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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Apparent Facebook & X/Twitter accounts of alleged suspect in another attempt to assassinate Trump are filled with support of proxy war in Ukraine, including personal involvement in recruiting of foreigners to fight & trip to Ukraine. His Facebook account, which I examined, is now removed. This is his photo on Maidan in Ukraine.Image
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Wow! Nuland basically admits that Ukraine-Russia peace deal, which was close to being finalized in spring 2022, “fell apart” because US, UK & other Western governments “advised” Zelensky government that it was not “good deal” even though even members of Ukrainian delegation stated in recent interviews that this was very good deal, best deal that Ukraine could get & “very real compromise” & that Ukrainian delegation celebrated it with champagne. She basically confirms statements by ex-Israeli PM, head of Ukrainian delegation, Ukrainian officials close to Zelensky, ex-German chancellor & Turkish FM that US & UK blocked this peace deal, which was close to being finalized.

Victoria Nuland does not mention at all Russian war crimes in Bucha, which were inflated & mispresented by politicians, media & self-proclaimed experts as reason for ending peace talks. The peace deal agreement included withdrawal of Russian forces from all territory of Ukraine, with exceptions of Donbas & Crimea, whose status was to be determined at meeting of Putin & Zelensky, in exchange for neutral status & demilitarization of Ukraine.
Former Israeli prime minister said that US and other Western leaders blocked #Ukraine & #Russia peace deal which he negotiated on #Zelensky request in March because they wanted to continue to strike Putin. He said that there was good chance of such deal.
Ukrainian delegation head at Ukraine-Russia talks confirmed that Western countries told Zelensky not to sign peace deal in spring 2022 & said that "Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let's just fight."
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Sep 5
Hunka debacle: "Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told. Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the Second World War. Those consulted included members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, records show, but Library and Archives Canada, also known as LAC, did not include Holocaust survivors nor Holocaust scholars who had advocated for a full release of the list of alleged Nazi war criminals, Jewish and Holocaust academics say."

I was not consulted even though I am both scholar researching this issue & Ukrainian Canadian & had leading role in exposing SS Galicia veteran debacle in Canadian parliament. ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…Image
"It has been almost a year since MPs of all parties gave two standing ovations to Yaroslav Hunka, a resident of North Bay, Ont., who was described by then House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota as a hero.

But news quickly emerged that Hunka had served in a Ukrainian Waffen SS unit.

The incident became an international embarrassment for Canada as Holocaust historians, Jewish groups and the Polish government pointed out that Hunka’s unit had been involved in war crimes, including massacres of women and children. The division was also used by the Nazis to crush a national uprising in Slovakia, again prompting allegations of war crimes.

But the sight of MPs cheering on a Waffen SS veteran caused intense anger among Canadians, according to documents obtained in June by the Ottawa Citizen using the Access to Information law." ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…Image
Orwellian: "Ottawa warned release of names of Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada could help Russia" theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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Aug 20
Freedom & democracy: "The Verkhovna Rada adopted in its entirety bill No. 8371 on the de facto ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In the second reading, the document was supported by 265 people's deputies. The president's party cast 173 votes out of a faction of 233 deputies." strana.today/news/470668-ra…Image
As I said, Zelensky became Poroshenko on steroids. He abandoned as result of far-right & Western pressure his election promises of peace & reconciliation & adopted Poroshenko's nationalist election program of "army, language & faith" after defeating him in presidential elections. This opportunism & weakness of Zelensky had devastating consequences to Ukraine & Ukrainians.
The ban of the largest church in Ukraine on false grounds is Zelensky's decision
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One of battalions of Ukrainian drone forces is named Nachtigall after Nachtigall battalion, which was organized by Nazi Germany's Abwehr & Bandera OUN under Shukhevych command. Its members participated in Lviv pogrom of Jews & killed Jews in Vinnytsia in 1941. Commander of current Nachtigall battalion fought in OUN battalion during war in Donbas & posts billboard with photo of SS Galicia division & Nazi SS commander Himmler as recruiting ad for Ukrainian armed forces. He was deputy of Lviv city council from Holos party led by popular singer Vakarchuk.

This battalion participates in ongoing attack of Kursk Region of Russia. This and other mainstreaming of Nazi collaborators & mass murderers is done with de facto approval by Zelensky & Western governments & is exploited by Russian government, which falsely claims that Ukraine is Nazi state. In contrast to condemnation & apologies by Canadian politicians & resignation of head of parliament, Zelensky is still silent about his standing ovation to SS Galicia veteran in Canadian parliament.Image
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In contrast to SS Galicia division veteran debacle in Canadian parliament, there would be revealing omission, whitewashing & glorification by Western media of modern Nachtigall battalion named after Nazi Germany & Bandera OUN battalion. @Reuters report is just beginning: "'Nachtigall' unit of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Force."yahoo.com/news/russian-b…Image
And leader of neo-Nazi C14 became Deputy Commander of 14th Regiment of Unmanned Aviation Systems of Unmanned Systems Forces. Nachtigall battalion is in this regiment.
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Ilya Kononov, Visiting Professor at Carleton University from Ukraine: "This story [Maidan massacre] has been meticulously investigated for several years by Canadian-Ukrainian political scientist, professor at the University of Ottawa Ivan Katchanovski. His conclusions are based not only on the testimonies of the participants, but even more so on video recordings of the events, on trace evidence and forensic examinations. Now materials from the trial and the decision of the Svyatoshinsky Court of Kyiv have been added. Forensic examinations have shown that most of the protesters were killed from top to bottom, from the side and in the back. This indicates that they were shot from the windows of the Ukraina Hotel, where the Svoboda MPs had rented rooms in advance, as well as from the roof of the conservatory ( Katchanovski 2023: 192). In several publications, I. Katchanovski cites the words of O. Tyahnybok and R. Koshulynsky, who admitted in different interviews that during a meeting with them, an unnamed representative of the government of one of the Western countries said that the West would act against V. Yanukovych when the number of victims reaches at least 100 ( Katchanovski 2020: 11; Katchanovski 2023: 195). The Canadian researcher shows attempts to falsify the case of the shootings on the Maidan, attempts to disrupt the trial, which were undertaken by the far-right organization "C14", which attacked the court several times.

On October 18, 2023, the Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv issued a verdict blaming "unknown" shooters in addition to the police for the deaths of protesters. The court gave a rather interesting description of the "peaceful march" to the Verkhovna Rada on February 18. This description is more like a description of an unsuccessful putsch: "On February 18, 2014, as a result of a violent confrontation between protesters and law enforcement officers, during which violence was used on both sides, including the hidden use of firearms, 771 activists suffered bodily injuries of varying severity, of which 19 died, 12 of them as a result of gunshot wounds, and a total of 120 activists received gunshot wounds, in addition, 398 law enforcement officers suffered bodily injuries of varying severity, 8 of whom died from gunshot wounds, and a total of 133 law enforcement officers received gunshot wounds" ( Virok 2023). I. Katchanovski commented on the court’s decision: “This is an important official recognition not only because the violence was the most significant case of mass killings, violent crimes and human rights violations in independent Ukraine at that time, but also because of the subsequent conflicts it led to. Notably, the massacre precipitated the violent overthrow of Yanukovych and his government, who were falsely accused of carrying it out. This then escalated into Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the subsequent civil war and Russian intervention in the Donbas, conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and Western states, which Russia dramatically intensified with its illegal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022” ( Katchanovski 2024).

The most important role in legitimizing the current political regime in Ukraine is played by the sacralization of the events of the acute socio-political crisis of 2013–2014 and the unconstitutional change of power in 2014, which were officially called the “Revolution of Dignity”. O. Tyahnybok, one of the leaders of the Maidan and the head of the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda”, admitted that this name was invented by his fellow party members ( Katchanovski 2020: 14).

Officially, the Maidan of 2013–2014 in Ukraine is interpreted as a democratic movement of the people that led to a revolution. Ivan Kachanovsky convincingly showed that the main force of the Maidan were right-wing and far-right organizations, whose influence disproportionately exceeded their numbers. They were directly connected with the leadership of the Maidan protests. All far-right organizations of Ukraine were mobilized to carry out various actions, and they are primarily responsible for the violence and deaths of people on both sides of the barricades. I. Kachanovsky names such organizations as VO Svoboda, Right Sector, C14 (a branch of Svoboda), and Tryzub (a paramilitary branch of the KUN). He qualifies the Right Sector as a “partially radical nationalist and partially fascist or semi-fascist organization.” The goal of the right was not democracy, but a “national revolution” ( Katchanovski 2020: 10)." istorex.org/post/29-07-202…Image
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Katchanovski 2023 – Katchanovski, I. The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War and Relations // Russian Politics. 2023. N 8. Pp.181–205. Doi:10.30965/24518921-00802005 brill.com/view/journals/…
Katchanovski 2020 – Katchanovski, I. The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine // Labor and Society. March 2020. N 23. Pp. 5–29. Doi: 10.1111/lands.12457 brill.com/view/journals/…
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