Russian Snipers Killed Ukrainian Protesters on Maidan?

By Mendeleyeev

Young adults tear up the streets to arm fighters who are using bricks to fight off tanks, grenades and snipers. (Photo: Ilya Varlamov)

A new French documentary completed for French Television channel 3, claims that the snipers who fired on, and killed some 100 protesters during the Maidan revolution were Russian special forces quietly brought in to suppress the revolution.

You can read a brief of their report in English here.

While we at the Mendeleyev Journal have made no judgment regarding their claim, we do find the proposition to warrant being worthy of investigation.