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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko insists on bringing to justice everyone responsible for shooting people during the Revolution of Dignity in early 2014 and is determined to demand that the Verkhovna Rada make amendments to the legislation on the administration of justice in absentia.

“The president has stressed that all those guilty of shooting Maidan demonstrators must be brought to justice, including those who issued criminal orders,” the presidential press service said in commenting on reports by the chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the prosecutor general.

“The president said he would insist that the Verkhovna Rada make amendments to the law on the administration of justice in absentia at its next session, so that all those responsible can be punished,” it said.

“These materials (presented by the SBU chief and the prosecutor general) provide considerably more evidence to bring concrete officials to justice, and this concerns not only those who killed Ukrainian heroes with these weapons, but we can also hunt down those who ordered dispensing these weapons and those who ordered and arranged the killings, which considerably improves the evidentiary basis,” Poroshenko said.