Originally posted by author on his Facebook account One of several pro-Maidan snipers (background left in photo) shown in video on YouTube from Feb. 20, 2014

This previously unreported but publicly available video shows [Volodymyr] Parasiuk and some armed members of his special company walking past the Maidan stage from the Trade Union building direction during the Maidan massacre at 9:10am on February 20, 2014 (3:25-3:28 mark in the video). One of them openly carries an AK assault rifle, or its hunting version.

My study contains evidence that Maidan snipers shot at the police from the Trade Union building shortly before the police units fled at 8:50am and that this building remained one of the locations of the Maidan “snipers” or their coordinators during the massacre of the protesters.

From 9:07-9:10am, at least four protesters (Shymko, Solchanyk, Saienko, and Kotsuba) were killed within less than 150 meters of each other. The evidence suggests that at least first three of them were shot from the Hotel Ukraina. At 9:10am, there was a public announcement from the Maidan stage about snipers in the Hotel Ukraina. Armed Berkut police officers were also firing live ammunition in the close distance at this very time.