The international investigations commission investigating the events in Kyiv should investigate the events that deal with people's deaths on Kyiv's Maidan in Feb. and the tragedy that occurred in Odesa on May 2, Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko said.
“I will demand that the international investigative commission set up
in the Council of Europe to investigate the Maidan events should also
investigate the horrible events that occurred in Odesa on May 2,”
Poroshenko told a press conference in Odesa on Wednesday.
Poroshenko said he believes the commission will include
representatives of European countries and Russia. “I do not rule out
that […] it could comprise of representatives from Russia to stop the
speculation,” he said.
Poroshenko said the outcome of the work done by the international
commission will be presented to Ukraine and the world, including in
Donetsk and Luhansk, “where people have tried to use these events to
destabilize the situation.
Forty-eight people were killed in the riots that occurred in Odesa on
May 2, which involved activists from the ultra-radical movement Right
Sector and extremist football fans.
