The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to contemplate the possibility of improving the quality of the video recordings made at the scenes of mass killings in Kyiv on Feb. 20, 2014.
“The February 20 video recordings have been made available to FBI
specialists for possible improvement through the use of the most
advanced global technologies, which could be a significant help to the
inquiry,” Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky told a press
conference on Friday.
The investigators have requested video footage from CCTV cameras on all the buildings in central Kyiv, he said.
More than 1,000 people have been questioned, over 200 scenes
inspected and 400 lab tests carried out as part of the inquiry into the
mass killings on Maidan, Makhnitsky said.
Meanwhile, his deputy Oleksiy Bahanets said at a briefing on Friday
that the investigators had not obtained direct evidence about Russian
security agents being involved in the killing of Maidan activists during
mass protests in Kyiv.
“We have no direct evidence of them having been involved in the mass killings or causing bodily harm to the people,” he said.
At the same time, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claims that
Russian security agents travelled to Ukraine several times and that it
also knows where they had stopped, the prosecutor’s deputy said.
However, the SBU has not retained any official evidence of it, Bahanets
said.
