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A retired Georgian general alleges that the snipers who shot people on Kyiv's Maidan in February were former defense and security officials from the structures of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili.

Tristan Tsitelashvili said on Rossiya 1 television on Wednesday that
he knows the names of four of those snipers and the materials on the
matter he has collected will be sent to the Georgian prosecutors.

“There were four Georgians there. We have their names and we know
they worked in the defense and security structures under Saakashvili. We
have all the information: when they left for Ukraine, when their
headquarters was created, where it was located, and where they received
special assignments,” Tsitelashvili said.

Tsitelashvili said the group of Georgian snipers in Kyiv was led by Giya Baramadze and Givi Targamadze.