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,” 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.
Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders – leaked EU’s Ashton phone tape
http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/
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.
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反政府勢力がヤヌコビッチ政権を倒そうと、キエフの広場に集まって集会を開いていた時、だれがビルの上から狙撃を行ない、多くの集会参加者と警察官とが殺された。
反政府勢力は、ヤヌコビッチ側が狙撃犯だと非難した。ヤヌコビッチ政権は、反政府側が狙撃犯だと非難した。
アメリカのメディアは、ヤヌコビッチ政権による狙撃を大々的に報じた。
RT (旧称：ロシア・トゥデイ) はロシア政府が所有する国営メディア。狙撃は反政府側によるものだと報じている。
アメリカにとっては狙撃は政府側の仕業であり、ロシアにとっては狙撃は反政府側の仕業。
アメリカにとっての事実も、ロシアにとっての事実も、それが真実と同じかどうかを別にすれば、それぞれに正しいわけで、私たちはそれぞれの立場によってどちらかを信じる。
すべての報道、すべての事実は、結局はそういうことでしかない。