Situationen i Ukraina just nu.

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Top Ukrainian officials have insinuated that Russian security services had a hand in the violence that led to more than 100 deaths in Kiev last month, and announced that a dozen Ukrainian police officers have been detained on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.

Arsen Avakov, Ukraine's interim interior minister, said his predecessor Vitali Zakharchenko, currently on the run, was directly involved in giving orders to shoot at protesters, along with the SBU security services.

Valentyn Nalivaichenko, the new head of the SBU, added that a number of officers from Russia's FSB had been consulting with the SBU in Kiev in December and January, and that Russian citizens were present at SBU headquarters. He also claimed that explosives and weapons were delivered to Ukraine from Russia during the protest period.---

On Thursday, Ukrainian officials said their investigation had determined some, but not all, of the sniper locations, and that 12 people had been arrested after thousands of riot police were questioned. Officials said some of the Berkut (special police) officers whom Kiev wants to arrest were in Crimea. Hundreds of Berkut returned to the peninsula after the violence in Kiev and were treated as heroes.

Mr Avakov gave details of one particular episode where he said the inquiry had established that eight of those killed were hit by bullets from the same machine-gun.

He identified Maj Dmytro Sadovnyk as commander of a unit suspected of shooting dead at least 17 protesters.

"From the side of the the Zhovtnevy Palace, a special squad from the riot Berkut police, wearing yellow armbands, opened fire at the protesters. Much of this fire was targeted. We are carrying out ballistics tests on the weapons," Mr Avakov said.

The interior minister also showed a number of slides and photos illustrating where he said police snipers were firing from. He named two buildings on Khreshchatyk and Kostyolna streets, saying other spots were still being investigated.

And he added that the previous authorities had tried to make the inquiry impossible by burning uniforms, dumping weapons and destroying documents.

A number of those responsible for the shootings are believed to have fled to Crimea.

Ukrainian Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives had been involved in planning operations against the protesters.

He added that the FSB had sent "tonnes" of explosives and weapons by plane to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities also said that the killings of the protesters took place "under the direct leadership" of Mr Yanukovych.

They said arrest warrants had been issued for the ex-president and Oleksandr Yakymenko, Ukraine's former security service chief.

« Des agents du FSB (services secrets russes ndlr) ont participé à la planification et à la mise en oeuvre de la soi-disant opération anti-terroriste », a déclaré jeudi Valentin Nalivaïtchenko, chef des services de sécurité ukrainiens lors d’une conférence de presse sur les résultats préliminaires de l’enquête sur les tirs mortels du Maïdan.

Ces informations ont été démenties implicitement par les Russes. «Que ces déclarations restent sur la conscience des services de sécurité ukrainiens», a ainsi déclaré le service de presse du FSB, interrogé par Ria Novosti sur les affirmations de Valentin Nalivaïtchenko.

Les autorités ukrainiennes ont interpellé douze membres des anciennes forces spéciales antiémeutes, soupçonnés d’être impliqués dans les tueries de fin février à Kiev qui ont conduit au renversement du président pro-russe Viktor Ianoukovitch.

« Des membres d’une unité spéciale des «Berkout» ont été interpellés », a déclaré le procureur général d’Ukraine, Oleg Makhnitski, mercredi soir à la chaîne de télévision Canal 5.

« Il s’agit d’une unité baptisée «unité noire», dédiée aux opérations spéciales (…) qui a distribué des armes, dont des fusils de snipers », a poursuivi le responsable.

Ukraine on Thursday claimed to have evidence implicating dozens of Russian FSB agents in a crackdown on anti-government protesters in February that left more than 100 demonstrators dead, many from police sniper fire.

The government, however, stopped short of accusing any Russian agents of pulling the trigger in the shootings, in spite of strong suspicions by members of the opposition movement.

More than 30 people were involved in the shooting that resulted in casualties in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on February 20, Ukrainian Interior Minister appointed by Ukraine’s parliament Verkhovna Rada Arsen Avakov told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday.
“There were much more of them,” he added. “They were officers of the country’s Interior Ministry, Security Service and others,” acting Ukrainian Prosecutor General Oleg Makhnitsky noted.

How many died?

About 90 people.

On the bloodiest day, Thursday 20 February, more than 50 protesters were shot dead on Instytutska Street and other roads around the city's main square, the Maidan. Two days earlier, more than 20 were killed, many of them beaten by riot police.

Seventeen police officers also died that week, some of them from gunshot wounds.---

How did the bloodiest day unfold?

BBC correspondent Daniel Sandford saw the carnage in central Kiev on 20 February for himself.

He reported first seeing injured police officers being loaded into ambulances. It was unclear how they had been hurt but possible that they had been hit by gunfire, he said.

Very soon afterwards, the BBC team saw armed police pulling back from the main square. As protesters rushed up the hill towards them, the police opened fire with automatic weapons and the square resounded with the sound of heavy gunfire.

The retreating police appeared to be firing at will, our correspondent said.

Shooting continued for about two hours, after which the police withdrew, leaving only a few snipers in place.---

According to Mr Nalyvaychenko, the Yanukovych government deployed 108 members of the SBU's own elite anti-terrorist unit Alfa to seize back a building from the opposition in Kiev on 18 February.

Alfa members are being investigated to see whether they played a part in the killings, Ukrainian media say.

An article on the US news website The Daily Beast argues that the unit played a direct part in the shootings of 20 February. It published photos which are said to show heavily armed Alfa members loading kit into unmarked vans in a courtyard.

The detainees belonged to ‘Berkut black company’, acting Prosecutor General Oleg Makhnitsky told journalists on Thursday.

The General Prosecutor’s office explained that unlike regular Berkut troops, which went unarmed to the confrontation with anti-government protesters, the special operations unit was issued with sniper rifles to provide cover for their Berkut comrades.

“Their task was, as they explained, although we don’t fully believe them, to shoot back at advancing protesters and allow the regular Berkut troops retreat,” acting Deputy Prosecutor General Aleksey Baganets said.

A total of 12 officers were detained in the investigation, including the commander of the unit. The alleged involvement of other Ukrainian police and security units in the mass killings is still under investigation.