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Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

Oct 18

Wow! Maidan massacre trial in Ukraine acquits 2 Berkut policemen charged with Maidan massacre. This corroborates my academic studies. As I predicted based on political reasons, it convicts in absentia 3 Berkut officers, who were exchanged by Zelensky to Donbas separatists. Videos, forensic ballistic examinations & testimonies of eyewitnesses show that they also did not massacre Maidan protesters & charges against them were also trumped up in order to cover up Maidan snipers & Maidan leaders.

Synchronized videos show that specific time and direction of shooting by Berkut policemen did not coincide with killing of specific protesters. Forensic medical examinations revealed that nearly all Maidan protesters were shot from steep directions from the sides or back, which matched the Maidan-controlled buildings and did not match the Berkut police on the ground in front of the protesters. The absolute majority of wounded Maidan protesters, over 500 witnesses & self-admitted Maidan snipers testified that Maidan protesters and the Berkut police were massacred by snipers located in Maidan-controlled buildings. Government ballistic experts also determined in onsite investigative experiments that many protesters were shot from the Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan-controlled buildings.

The evidence includes cover-up of Maidan snipers, disappearance of the key evidence, such as security camera footage, many bullets, all shields and all but a couple of helmets of the Maidan protesters and stonewalling of the investigations and trials by the Maidan governments and the far right, and denials by the prosecution that there were any snipers in the Maidan-controlled buildings. Findings of nearly 40 previous forensic ballistic examinations, including conducted by automatic computer-based IBIS-TAIS system, were reversed without any explanation. Synchronized videos show that these Berkut policemen were not even shooting at specific times when these protesters were killed.

The trial decision in the case of 3 Berkut policemen convicted in absentia is not based on such evidence because of political pressure, since the executive branch in Ukraine often interferes in court decisions in such high-profile cases, and the far-right activists repeatedly attacked and threatened the trial.

It is revealing that even after the Maidan massacre trial, there is no one imprisoned for this massacre.

"The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War and Relations":
"Careful analysis of publicly available evidence revealed during the Maidan massacre trials and investigations, shows beyond reasonable doubt that the four killed and several dozen wounded policemen, and nearly all of the 49 killed and 157 wounded Maidan protesters, were shot by snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings and areas. Even the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s investigation determined that about half of Maidan protesters were wounded from locations other than the Berkut police positions and did not charge anyone with their attempted murder. The GPU investigation also initially found that the snipers in the Hotel Ukraina massacred the protesters. This hotel was controlled at the time by the far-right Svoboda party, which stated before the massacre that it took it under its control and guard.

The absolute majority of wounded Maidan protesters, with whose shooting Berkut policemen are charged and whose testimonies were revealed at the trial, testified at the trial and the investigation that they were shot by snipers from the Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan-controlled buildings or witnessed snipers there. Nearly 200 witnesses, including dozens of the prosecution witnesses, also testified about snipers in these Maidan-controlled locations, in particular, massacring the police and the protesters.

Synchronized videos presented at the trial show that the times and directions of the shots by the Berkut policemen did not coincide with the times and directions at which specific protesters were killed. Other videos showed Maidan protesters being lured into positions that were exposed to snipers from such Maidan-controlled buildings as the Hotel Ukraina.

Forensic medical examinations by government experts determined that the majority of the protesters were shot from a steep angle from either the side or back. This is consistent with locations of the Maidan-controlled buildings, and inconsistent with the locations of the Berkut police on the ground. Also, the initial ballistic examinations did not match the bullets extracted from the bodies of killed and wounded to the Kalashnikov rifles used by Berkut.

The accidental killing and wounding of a small number of protesters by the Berkut police by ricochet bullets, or in a crossfire with snipers in the Maidan- controlled buildings, cannot be completely excluded because of the lack of publicly available data or because of contradictory data. But their killing and wounding together with other protesters suggests that they were also likely shot by the Maidan snipers.

Nor did the trials and investigations reveal any evidence that President Yanukovych or his law enforcement ministers and commanders ordered the massacre. Forensic examinations of the bullet holes by the government experts and the videos they presented showed that the Berkut policemen were mostly shooting above the Maidan protesters, and in particular into the Hotel Ukraina, which was the main location of the snipers...

There are various indications of stonewalling and cover-up of key evidence. It is noteworthy that the government investigation denied presence of any snipers in the Maidan-controlled buildings, in spite of its own initial findings that no fewer than 13 protesters were killed, and at least 77 wounded, from shot fired from the Maidan-controlled buildings and areas. When bullet trajectories, as determined by government ballistic experts and lasers in on-site-investigative experiments, showed that many Maidan protesters had been shot at from the Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan-controlled buildings, this result was covered-up and ballistic experts were no longer used. The GPU did not use ballistic experts to determine the bullet trajectories and locations of shooters even after being ordered to do so by the judge and the jury.

Unexplained reversals of results of some 40 forensic ballistic examinations, including computer-based examination which showed that bullets of Berkut Kalashnikovs did not match bullets from bodies of killed Maidan protesters, also suggest a cover-up and evidence tampering. Synchronized content analysis of the videos of the Berkut police and killed and wounded protesters along with locations and directions of wounds in forensic medical examination, testimonies of eyewitnesses among Maidan protesters, and on-site investigative experiments by government ballistic experts show that Maidan protesters could not had been physically shot from the Berkut positions,

Not a single person has been convicted or is currently under arrest for the Maidan massacre after more than nine years of investigation and trials, despite this being one of the best documented cases of mass murder in history, and one of the most significant human rights violations in independent Ukraine. This massacre, and the subsequent assassinations attempts against President Yanukovych, resulted in the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government, and this ‘false-flag’ mass killing must be seen as a key part of this violent and undemocratic overthrow of the government in Ukraine.

These findings have major implications for understanding the ‘Euromaidan’ and the origins of the violent conflict in Ukraine and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and between Russia and the West. This false-flag massacre led to the de facto Western-backed violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government, which spiraled into the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the civil war, and Russian military interventions in Donbas.

The trials and investigation revelations show that not popular “Euromaidan” protests but this staged mass killing and assassination attempts against Yanukovych were decisive in his overthrow. They demonstrate that, contrary to the dominant narratives in Ukraine and the West, the political transition during the “Euromaidan” was undemocratic. This mass killing of the protesters and the police also was one of the most significant political crimes and human rights violations in history of independent Ukraine.

The failure of the Ukrainian law enforcement and justice system to provide proper justice in the case of the Maidan massacre undermined the rule of law and prospects for reconciliation within the Ukrainian society, which was divided to various degree and largely along regional lines in terms of support for the Maidan protests and on many other political issues during and after the “Euromaidan.” The Maidan massacre trial verdict is unlikely to ensure justice because of the politization of this case and lack of independence of the judicial branch, especially at the time of the Ukraine-Russia war. The same concerns the failure of international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, the Council of Europe, and the UN Security Council, to ensure justice in this crucial case.

The far-right involvement in the Maidan massacre of the police and the protesters and the failure to investigate, prosecute, and punish the far right for this mass killing resulted in the far right attaining oversize influence in the Ukrainian politics and de facto immunity for other violence or threats of violence.

The Maidan massacre gave start to conflicts between Ukraine and Russia and between the West and Russia, which Russia drastically escalated by invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders claim that a fascist coup in Ukraine was conducted during the Maidan, with Western government involvement, and that a Nazi regime is in power in Ukraine. He has used this claim to justify the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022. However, scholarly studies show that the Russian government exaggerates the role of neo-Nazis during and after the Maidan, that the Ukrainian governments are not Nazi or neo-Nazi, and that the Russian invasion is illegal under the international law.59 Simply put, the Maidan massacre does not justify the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. Conversely, the Russian invasion does not justify the Maidan massacre of the police and the protesters.

The Maidan massacre, the oligarchic and far-right elements involved in this mass killing, and the lack of justice in this crucial case of political violence had significant negative consequences to Ukraine and Ukrainians directly and indirectly, i.e., as result of spiraling conflicts that it provoked. This was one of factors that indirectly contributed to Ukraine’s loss of largely pro-Russian Crimea as result of the Russian annexation, and to the loss of most of Donbas as result of separatist rebellion and Russian military interventions in August 2014 and January 2015. Understanding the Maidan massacre and bringing to justice its perpetrators could have helped to resolve peacefully the conflicts in Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia conflicts and to prevent the Ukraine-Russia war.

The Maidan massacre and those who were involved in this mass killing by starting the conflicts spiral and the failure to bring justice by failing to prevent conflict escalation also indirectly contributed to the Ukraine-Russia war with its large human and economic costs to Ukraine and Ukrainians and likely permanent loss of annexed Donbas and parts of other Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine.60 Ukraine is unlikely to defeat Russia without the direct Western participation in this war.

This does not absolve Russia of direct responsibility for its illegal invasion, military interventions, and annexations in Ukraine and human and economic toll of the Ukraine-Russia war. The outcome of this war would determine not only the future of Ukraine but also of the future of Ukrainian-Russian relations and the world order.

The Maidan massacre trial and investigation did not reveal evidence of Russian or Western governments involvement in this crucial mass killing. The de facto backing by the West of the violent overthrow of the democratically elected and relatively pro-Russian government in Ukraine by means of the Maidan massacre and assassination attempts also contributed to the start of the conflicts in Crimea and Donbas and conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West which now escalated into the Ukraine-Russia war and a proxy war between the West and Russia in Ukraine, which became a US client state after the “Euromaidan.” Therefore, the Maidan massacre and the failure to ensure justice ultimately have significant indirect global consequences, which can further increase in unlikely but not excluded case of a direct war between NATO and Russia with a danger of a nuclear war over Ukraine. The puzzling misrepresentation of the Maidan massacre by the West and its failure to help advance justice in this case requires further research.

The different narratives of the Maidan massacre and regime change in Ukraine have complicated peaceful resolutions of the conflicts in Crimea and Donbas and Ukraine-Russia and the West-Russia conflicts, and poisoned relations between Russia and Ukraine. They have also fed into the proxy war over Ukraine between the West and Russia, and are therefore likely to complicate Ukrainian-Russian relations long after the war. Bringing the actual perpetrators of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine to justice is a difficult, but necessary, step in resolving these dangerous conflicts."brill.com/view/journals/…

Table of major evidence of false-flag massacre of Maidan protesters & police in Ukraine on 20 February 2014 in my new peer-reviewed journal article "The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Ivan Katchanovski

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Oct 18

My new open access article, entitled "The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine," has been just published by major peer-reviewed journal following very positive reviews right before Maidan massacre trial decision on October 18-19:
It is based on almost 10 years of my research & shows that this massacre of Maidan protesters & police was false flag mass killing organized and carried out with "involvement of oligarchic and far-right elements of the Maidan opposition to overthrow the incumbent government in Ukraine."

This open access article or its parts can be freely viewed, downloaded, shared, translated and republished. It is published open access thanks to ongoing crowdfunding campaign in major social sciences journal which is indexed by Scopus and Web of Science and has 27% acceptance rate. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is my third peer-reviewed journal open access article concerning false-flag #Maidan massacre that escalated to illegal Russian invasion of #Ukraine in 2022. Another my article, entitled "The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War and Relations," has already over 70,000 full-text views and downloads.

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These two open access peer-reviewed journal articles concerning Maidan massacre in Ukraine are based on my article that was accepted after minor revision but then rejected by another peer-reviewed journal in case of political censorship.

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Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

Oct 6

In addition to "Nazigate," Maidan massacre & Ukraine war, I also described on @kthalps show how I attended along with few dozen people in Kyiv in 1988 first opposition rally in nearly 70 years. I discussed how I was deprived graduate education & was threatened with expulsion from Kyiv university in 1990 because I wrote my final thesis based on theories of Max Weber and Western economists & concluded that Soviet system was bound to collapse. There was no problem that I wrote it in Ukrainian.

I also talked about illegal seizure of my house, land & all other property in Western Ukraine in retaliation for my Maidan massacre studies.

I described how my grandfather & grand grandfather survived executions by Nazi forces & how Wernher Von Braun V-2 missile fell meters away from house of my grand grandfather.

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Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

Sep 28

I am pleasantly surprised that my academic research-based tweets & interviews about the standing ovation by the parliament and prime-minister of Canada and the Ukrainian president to the veteran of the SS Galicia Division skyrocketed to such an impact. This was not possible without contributions of many others. On Saturday, I quote tweeted as “Orwellian” a tweet to confirm that the Associated Press photo caption referring to the standing ovation for this veteran who fought for the “First Ukrainian Division” during World War Two in fact referred to the SS Galicia division. My other research-based tweeter thread, which contained his photos in this division and his memoirs of joining this Waffen SS division voluntarily and my peer-reviewed article on involvement of this division members in mass killings of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, became viral with over 6,000,000 views.

These photos in the SS Galicia Division were then reported by Lev Golinkin in Forward, which was the first Western media publication to report this story. My interviews and tweets and the photos and the memoirs that I found were then reported by at least a few hundred TV, radio, print, and online media in Canada and dozens of other countries, including by Globe and Mail which was the first Canadian media to report this story on Sunday. This became the top story in the Canadian politics and the media and a major story in the media in Poland, the US, the UK, and many other countries. The speaker of the Canadian parliament apologized and resigned, leaders of opposition Canadian parties condemned the debacle, and prime minister of Canada issued an apology. This is how democracy works. I hoped and still hope that Ukraine would become like Canada in this regard.

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Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

Sep 24

These are photos of SS Galicia Division veteran who was given standing ovation by Canadian parliament, prime-minister of Canada and president of Ukraine. He published these photos of himself in this division during training in Germany. He is standing in the middle in 1st photo, second on the left in 2nd photo & without helmet near machine gun in 3d photo.

He wrote that he volunteered to join SS Galicia Division in 1943 in Ternopil region in Western Ukraine komb-a-ingwar.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-p…

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Ivan Katchanovski

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Sep 23

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