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Interesting addition. It wouldn't really prove anything vis-a-vis the snipers - there were lots of people in the hotel, and I don't know of any floor being really special other than maybe tiny 14, might be one suite where the Maidanistas were firing down from - whatever floor this is, it's got perches, so it's possible. --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:39, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

As for the Lebed connection, intriguing. If it's true and relevant, it will probably be mentioned in Ukrainian on right wing forums as what makes "Franko" so cool. It would be handy if someone dug up something like that. --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:39, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Who was the American sniper?
Ivan Katchanovski posts on Facebook, November 28, 2017


 * ''Wow! Another bombshell about the Maidan massacre: One of Georgians, who stated in an Italian TV documentary that they were in the groups of Maidan snipers, gave a one-hour long interview to a Macedonian TV show. This Georgian said that an adviser of then Georgian president selected him because he was a military sniper, gathered their group in the beginning of 2013, i.e. a year before the Maidan massacre, informed them that there would be a “coup” in Ukraine and that they traveled in March and September 2013 to the Independence Square (Maidan) in Kyiv to survey best positions for snipers and identified the Hotel Ukraina, Music Conservatory and Zhovtnevyi Palace as such. He stated that they again flew to Ukraine during the “Euromaidan” mass protesters in the end of January 2014 with a task of provoking the Berkut anti-riot police to use force against the Maidan protesters and spill blood of the protesters. Macedonian and Russian-language versions of this TV program were posted on its YouTube channel.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hFn3cB9eaE


 * ''This Georgian who identified himself as Alexander Revazishvilli said that in the morning of February 19, their group was ordered by one the Maidan leaders from the Fatherland party to move from the Georgian tent to the Music Conservatory and given SKS carbines and bullets. He also stated that saw there a group of about 10 people, who included the Maidan special company commander and his father armed with Kalashnikov-based Saiga hunting carbine and with SKS carbine, and another group of Georgians who were accompanied by a former top Georgian military commander. The interviewee stated that all these groups and the said Maidan leader shot for about 10-15 minutes circa 7:30am-8:00 am on February 20 from the Conservatory at both the Berkut police and the Maidan protesters following a command to do so by this Maidan leader.
 * ''This Georgian said that he then abandoned the Maidan and flew back to Georgia. He named several Georgian officials in the Saakashvili government, the said Maidan leader and several people whom he referred to as other snipers. He also described a former far right American US Army sniper who called himself in a Ukrainian TV program a Right Sector adviser and an Azov battalion instructor. The Georgian stated that he and other two Georgians decided to go public and give interviews to the Italian and Macedonian television programs because they felt danger to their lives after several Georgians, whom he said were Maidan snipers or participated in these Maidan events, were killed in strange circumstances in Ukraine. He specifically named a Georgia-based Chechen recently killed by a car bomb in Kyiv, three Georgians who served in the neo-Nazi led Azov regiment and were killed during the Donbas war, and two Georgians killed during the Maidan massacre. He said that this TV report filmed him and one of these two Georgians killed during the Maidan massacre in a Georgian tent on the Maidan.
 * https://life.ru/t/новости/940276/kiiev_izbavliaietsia_ot_ghruzinskikh_naiomnikov


 * ''The last name of another Georgian killed during the Maidan massacre in strange circumstances matches Davyd Kipiani, whose body was reportedly found close to midnight on February 20 in an area far from the shooting. He was a member of the Georgian party led by Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia who became the governor of the Odesa Region in Ukraine in 2015. Killing of this Georgian protester on February 20 was not included in the charges, and circumstances of his killings have not been officially disclosed.
 * ''Since the Georgian interviewed by the Macedonian TV gave not only his name but also specific information about himself, said that he crossed the Ukrainian border at Kyiv airports in spring and fall 2013 using his real passport, and showed passport stamps, it would be easy for investigators, government officials, and journalists to verify his identity and his bombshell statements. I cannot verify this and other information concerning specific individuals named in this and other Macedonian and Italian TV interviews because my academic study of the Maidan massacre analyzed this massacre from a political science perspective and was not concerned with identities of specific snipers and massacre organizers. But information, which is given by him about the specific locations of snipers, types and calibers of firearms from which Maidan protesters and the police were shot, shooting of both police and the protesters from the Music Conservatory and the Hotel Ukraina, involvement of the Right-Sector linked Maidan special company and elements of the Fatherland party, and the Maidan massacre as a false flag operation, is generally consistent with numerous publicly available evidence analyzed and cited in my APSA and ASN conference papers and revealed at the Maidan massacre trial. My video appendix with English and Polish-language subtitles includes several videos of shooting from the Music Conservatory and a map showing that both police and protesters were shot from this Maidan-controlled building.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9o-XTOVDgA

Fore more on the context, see Talk:Maidan snipers/Suspects

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 13:43, 29 November 2017 (UTC)