By Friday, June 13, investigators have managed to identify only one weapon which was used in killing protestors in the Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Bahanets said.
“We have identified one automatic rifle that caused the death of ten
protestors ( . . .) It is a 7.62 millimeter AK rifle,” Bahanets said at a
briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
It is regretful that that the sniper rifle that killed 76 people has
not been identified, he said. “We have not obtained irrefutable
evidence,” Bahanets said.
At the same time, he said that snipers from all Ukrainian
special-forces units have been questioned and their weapons checked and
fired for comparing with the charges and bullets recovered from the
scenes. Also, investigators have identified eyewitnesses from among
bystanders who were at the scene recording the shooting.
The analysis of their footage has shown that the protestors in
Instytutska Street walked towards the police cordon unarmed, with the
aim to torch car tires near a concrete barricade outside the upper exit
from the Khreschatyk metro station to prevent police from conducting
precision firing, Bahanets said.
