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Additional examinations are needed to establish with dead certainly that the protesters on the Independence Square in Kyiv were killed by the weapons found in Holosiyivsky district in Kyiv.

“At the moment, we have established that these weapons have relation to those events and consequently, taking into account the case materials, which are at the Prosecutor General’s Office, a series of expert examination will be held with these weapons… and I do not rule out that this will give us more details,” Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Hryhoriy Ostafiychuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday, when asked whether it is currently possible to say that these weapons were used for shooting Maidan activists.

Head of the Special Investigations Directorate of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Serhiy Horbatiuk for his part added that this will be a difficult examination.