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Ivan Katchanovski on Facebook - ebruary 6, 2016
 * ''President Poroshenko along with his heads of the Security Service and the Prosecutor General Office made widely publicized statements on February 5 that the SBU located Kalashnikov assault rifles, a Kalashnikov machine gun and a hunting rifle which were used during the Maidan massacre and that they offered definite proof that the Maidan protesters were killed from these weapons. The SBU and the GPU stated today that pieces of 23 AKMs, one Dragunov sniper rifle, and one Izh shotgun were found in August 2015 in Kyiv City and that the recovered serial numbers of 12 AKMs match the numbers of 24 AKMs of the special Berkut company, which is charged with killing 48 out of 49 protesters.
 * ''But the heads of the SBU and GPU investigative departments also revealed today that forensic ballistic examinations to match these firearms to bullets, which were recovered from the killed protesters, still have to be conducted six months after the weapons discovery. This is another dog that did not bark evidence. The Maidan trial revealed that it was already determined in 2014 soon after the Maidan massacre that the forensic ballistic examinations of bullet samples, which were fired from these Berkut Kalashnikovs and stored in the central bullet database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, did not match bullets recovered from the killed protesters.
 * ''Since bullets fired from a firearm get specific marks, such marks allow matching of bullets to a specific weapon by comparing them with such bullet samples even without the original weapon. Such matching of bullets is equivalent to matching fingerprints from a crime scene to fingerprints in a police database.
 * ''The Maidan massacre trial already revealed results of forensic ballistic reports which indicate that the majority of the 39 protesters were killed from the same single 7.62mm AKM, its hunting versions, or other firearms of the same caliber. Forensic medical reports concerning locations and directions of entry wounds, videos showing the moments of killings of most of these protesters, and testimonies of Maidan eyewitnesses show that these protesters were killed from this firearm from the Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina and not from the Berkut positions on the ground. Similar evidence presented during the trial suggests that protesters were also killed from other 7.62 caliber firearms and from hunting weapons from this hotel and other Maidan-controlled locations, such as the Bank Arkada and Muzeinyi Lane buildings.
 * ''Previously, the senior government officials claimed without providing any evidence that the weapons used by the Berkut special company during the Maidan massacre were stolen by Berkut commanders and members who escaped with them to Crimea. Because of their bullet samples in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, it would made no rational sense from a rational choice perspective for the Berkut to take and cut into pieces their weapons and then bury them all Kyiv city in a very shallow pit and in a nearby pond. These are easy to find locations compared to alternatives, such as a nearby Dnipro river. The photos released by the SBU of this pit and two plastic bags with the cut pieces of the weapons do not show any visible traces of soil and mud on these bags which were supposedly under water.
 * ''The unexplained disappearance and then recovery of these weapons in the easy to find location, the failure to make public results of forensic ballistic examinations involving these weapons and their bullet samples or to conduct such examinations, the timing and character of the public announcements concerning the discovery of these weapons all are consistent with the falsification of the Maidan massacre investigation. Ukrainian media reports and the AFP story about the weapons discovery fail to raise any of these points. They repeat the latest official statements, like was the case with similar unfounded official statements alleging involvement of SBU Alfa snipers, the Omega unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a Russian president aide in the Maidan snipers' massacre. In contrast, the Ukrainian and Western mainstream media still do not report revelations from the Maidan massacre trial, court decisions revealing GPU investigations of the far right involvement, and other evidence that this was a false-flag operation.


 * http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/ukraine-authorities/2495212.html
 * http://www.ukrainebusiness.com.ua/news/16755.html


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 * http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/6/7098086/