3 April 2014




Members of the group ‘Search Initiative’ ("Пошукова ініціатива"), are looking for the site where persons killed in Maidan may have been buried. In Brovarov, a south-eastern suburb of Kyiv, they have found a suspicious unmarked, disrupted grave site.  

Observations showed suspicious graves without any information about who has person buried there. The crosses by the graves look older than the disrupted ground (second hand crosses?) and there are no wreathes or shawls which had previously been on the grounds of the cemetery (Brovarske cemetery). Also, the team noticed a great ‘waste pit’, which had been covered up to level the ground, which is mentioned in the video about the graveyard. The team also reported that they are some just-dug pits that cannot be explained – there is no reason for the dug out pits to be there.

EuroMaidan SOS announced that as of today, there remain 144 missing and unaccounted for since the bloody days of Feb 18-20 in Kyiv. Some, or all, of the 144 are suspected to have been killed, therefore this burial site is part of the investigation. 

There have been 1, 669 persons injured and 1108 of these persons were hospitalised from these three days. 103 reported dead as a result of their participation in the protests in Maidan since 30 November).

Following on yesterday’s report that members of the Berkut forces were responsible for the sniper shootings, today a spokesman for the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that, on suspicion of involvement in the killing of protesters in the centre of Kyiv, 12 former soldiers of Special Forces Berkut have been detained. The killing of anti-government protesters in Kyiv has been confirmed by reports announced by Security Chiefs to have been carried out ‘under the direct leadership’ of ousted President Viktor Yanukovich.


The head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Valentyn Nalyvaychenko also said that there are indications that the Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) was involved in the mass killings in Kyiv. Nalyvaychenko stated that on January 20, at the Hostomel and Zhulyany airports, transport aircraft landed from Chkalovsk, Russia, delivered 5,100 kg of explosives, special equipment and additional weapons to put down the protests on Maidan.

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