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Ukraine: The Untold Story of the Maidan Killings

The Ukrainian police have been blamed for the massacre of more than fifty protestors in central Kiev, last February. In this investigation Gabriel Gatehouse hears another story.

One year on from the massacre in Kiev’s Maidan square, when more than fifty protestors were killed, Gabriel Gatehouse returns to Ukraine to investigate what really happened. Up to now, all the blame for the shootings has been put onto the police. Yet the official investigation into the violence appears to be going nowhere.

It was the events on Maidan that led to Ukraine’s pro-Russian president fleeing the country, sparking a confrontation over Crimea and now in the east of the country.

Gabriel Gatehouse hears for the first time from a man who says he was recruited to be a sniper on the protestors’ side. So what did happen on Maidan square, an event that has pushed the world to the brink of a new cold war?

(Photo: Protestors. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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28 minutes

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Sun 15 Feb 2015 10:05GMT

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  • Thu 12 Feb 2015 02:32GMT
  • Thu 12 Feb 2015 16:32GMT
  • Thu 12 Feb 2015 20:32GMT
  • Sun 15 Feb 2015 10:05GMT

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