Who has massacred over eighty of demonstrators and cops gathered at Maidan Nezalezhnosti ,Kiev Independence Square heart and symbol – up to that fateful February 20, 2014 – of the events in favor of the Association Agreement with the European Union ? The anti-Russian opposition made government after the Russian leader’s retreat Viktor Yanukovych has always pointed his finger at the special forces of the deposed president accusing them of sending a team of snipers to shoot the demonstrators to drown the protest in a blood bath. Already then, however, many raised doubts and perplexities.

The first to contest that version was Foreign Minister Urmas Paet. Returning from a trip to Kiev only 5 days after the massacre reported in a phone call to EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, revelations from a Ukrainian doctor who examined the cadavers of Piazza Maidan. The intercepted phone call spread by the Russian media is disconcerting.

“The most disturbing thing – Paet explains – is that all the evidence shows that people killed by snipers – both the cops and people in the street – were killed by the same snipers …” Faced with the perplexity of a visibly embarrassed Ashton, the minister cites the testimony of the Ukrainian doctor. “She speaks as a doctor says it is the same signature, of the same kind of bullets. It is really disturbing that now the new coalition – Paet reaffirms – refuses to investigate what is really going on. There is a very strong conviction that there are behind the snipers …. That there is no Yanukovych, but some of the new coalition … “.

At four years from the beginning of November 2013 of Maidan’s demonstrations we are able to describe another truth, completely different from the official one. Our story begins towards the end of summer 2017 in Skopye, the capital of Macedonia. There after long and complex preliminaries we meet Koba Nergadze and Kvarateskelia Zalogy two Georgian protagonists and witnesses of that tragic shootout and subsequent massacre.

Both Nergadze and Zalogy are linked to former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili , who starring in August 2008 of a short but bloody war with Russia’s Vladimir Putin . Nergadze, as evidenced by an identification card he holds, was a member of a security service at the president’s orders. Zalogy is a former Saakashvili party activist. “I decided to come to Skopije to tell you everything we know about what happened … and I and my friend have decided together, we need to shed some light on those facts,” Nergadze says. The same will say Alexander Revazishvilli a few months later, a former target shooter of the Georgian army starred in the Maidan shootout, met in another Eastern European country. All three of our protagonists say that they were recruited at the end of 2013 by Mamuka Mamulashvili , a Saakashvili military advisor who after Maidan’s facts will move to the Donbass to lead the so-called Georgian Legion in clashes with Russian wire insurgents. “The first meeting was with Mamulashvili at the office of the National Movement,” Zalogy said. “The Ukrainian uprising in 2013 was similar to the” Pink Revolution “that took place in Georgia years before. We had to direct and guide it using the same pattern used for the “Pink Revolution”.

Alexander’s version is no different. “Mamuka first asked me if I was really a chosen shooter – Alexander remembers – he immediately told me he needed me in Kiev to pick some places.” Our protagonists, aggregated to various groups of volunteers between November 2013 and January 2014, receive passports with false names and money advances. “We left on January 15 and on the plane – Zalogy remembers – I received my passport and another with my photo but with different names and surnames. Then they gave us a thousand dollars to the head promising to give it another five thousand more there. “

Once in Kiev, our three protagonists begin to understand better why they were recruited. “Our task – Alexandere explains – was to arrange provocations to push the police to charge the crowd. Until the middle of February, however, there were not many weapons around. The molotovs, the shields and the sticks were used to the maximum. ” But in mid-February, clashes around Maidan begin to get worse. “About 15 and 16 February,” Nergadze remembers, “the situation has begun to become more serious every day. He was out of control now. And in the meantime, the first shoots were heard. “With the rise of tension new players come into play

“One day around February 15 – remembers Alexander – Mamualashvili personally visited our tent. There was another guy in his uniform with him. He introduced him and told us he was an instructor, an American soldier . ” The US military is called Brian Christopher Boyenger and is a former officer and shooter of the 101st Airborne Division. After Maidan moves on the Donbass front, where he will fight in the ranks of the Georgian Legion alongside Mamulashvili.

“We were always in touch with this Bryan – Nergadze explains – he was a Mamulashvili man. It was he who gave us the orders. I had to follow all his instructions. “

The first suspects on the presence of firearms among the ranks of demonstrators involve Serghey Pashinsky, a leader of Maidan Square, who became, after the fall of Yanukovych, chairman of the Kiev parliament. On February 18 – as a movie shot that day – a car rifle locked by a car shot by a demonstrator shows a machine gun. Few seconds after Pashinsky approaches and orders to let her go. The next day a handful of weapons were distributed to groups of Georgian and Lithuanian militants residing in Hotel Ukraine, the hotel overlooking the square used as a headquarters by opposition

“In those days, Pashinsky and three other people – including Parasyuk – have taken the weapons handbags to the hotel. They were going to get them into my room,” Nergadze says. Volodymyr Parasyuk is one of the leaders of the Maidan Square protest. After the massacre of demonstrators, he will become famous for an ultimatum in which he will threaten to use weapons to chase President Viktor Yanukovych.

“On February 18 – remembers Zalogy – someone took some weapons in my room. In the room with me there were two Lithuanians, the weapons were taken by them. ” “In each bag – remembers Nergadze – there were Makarov’s pistols, Akm carburetors, carbines. And then there were packets of cartridges. When I first saw them I did not understand …. When Mamulashvili arrived, I also asked him. “What’s going on,” I told him, “what are these weapons? Is everything all right? “Koba things are getting complicated, we have to start shooting,” he replied, “we can not go to the pre-election presidential elections …” “But to whom should we shoot? And where? “I asked him.” He replied that where he did not care, he had to shoot somewhere … so much to sow some chaos. “