This mass killing on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in a conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This massacre led to an overthrow of the government of Viktor Yanukovych and a Russian annexation in Crimea, a civil war in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, and Russian military intervention in support of separatists in these regions.”

To understand the violent climax to the Maidan Uprising on February 20 when 49 Maidan protesters and three police were killed and many more wounded, we turn to Katchanovski’s non-partisan research in The ‘Snipers’ Massacre, based on a massive collection of data, including thousands of journalist, protester, and police videos; forensic analysis of gunshot wounds; interviews with injured protesters and police; and analysis of Ukrainian government investigations and testimony.

The massacre was a false flag operation, which was rationally planned and carried out with a goal of the overthrow of the government and seizure of power.

The revelations from the Maidan massacre trials and investigations show that the narratives promoted by the Ukrainian and Western governments and with some notable exceptions the media that the Maidan protesters were massacred by government snipers and/or the Berkut police are false…The analysis shows cover-up and stonewalling of the investigations and trials by the Maidan governments and the far right. The prosecution denied that there were any snipers in the Maidan-controlled buildings. Not a single person is convicted or under arrest for the massacre of the protesters and the police almost 8 years after one of the most documented mass killings in history.

Because of various evidence of U.S. government backing of the Maidan opposition, its involvement in the Maidan government selection and policy decisions, and its past record of supporting or organizing regime change in other countries, additional research is needed to examine if there was any involvement of the U.S. government in the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government.