Snipers on Euromaidan. Another reality. The troubled face of Prawy Sektor
(BRUXELLES2, exclusive) The origin of the snipers during the February demonstrations continues to be questioned. A conversation between the Estonian Foreign Minister and the High Representative of the EU had caused trouble. I had already given a first on-the-spot analysis, this conversation (read: Ukraine is also a communications and intelligence war). We must never forget who revealed this conversation: it was not journalists, but wiretaps carried out illegally, by a government engaged in the conflict.
Incomplete words
The main source of the Estonian Foreign Minister was based on conversations he had had with the doctors engaged in Euromaidan, in particular Olga. The meaning of the complete conversation was detailed directly on the spot by her when I met her in kyiv. She never said that the snipers were from the opposition. But that many gunshot victims had been targeted deliberately, with intent to kill, in the same process. These shots sometimes came from the roofs of buildings held by the opposition. Which does not mean that it is this one who is responsible for the shootings.
A disturbing absence in February from Prawy Sektor
Another element - of which B2 was aware - is to be added to the file. During the most violent confrontations - when the snipers were present - the elements of Prawy Sektor (extreme right *), who had been there in the first days, even going to the confrontation (on February 17), going to the front or even to the provocation with the police, repelling them were not there on February 20 and 21, an official from the civic sector of Euromaidan told me.
A troubling role
A fact which can be analyzed both in the direction of the investigation made by the German journalists (knowing that there were snipers, the Prawy Sektors did not come) but also otherwise. One can only wonder about the disturbing role of this small extreme party which systematically disrupts the democratic game, attacking here the director of national television, there a presidential candidate, to whom registrations are attributed. neo-Nazis on certain buildings or cemeteries, etc.
Extremes... provocative
It will be necessary to wonder if this group, or rather a part of this group, is not quite simply "manipulated", sponsored, to carry out some dirty work, provocation, and thus justify a whole speech uttered in particular in Moscow on Ukraine and Kiev in the hands of fascists and extremists. It remains to be seen by whom. Is it the work of men like the current Ukrainian president (former Agit-Prop specialist and head of the Ukrainian secret service) or of Russia.
Extreme troop manipulation
This last hypothesis may seem counter-current. But this is not the first time that Russia has used extreme movements in this way to better justify certain repressive policies. The use of provocateurs is even a common practice, whether in the days of the USSR, or now. And it is rather in this way that we should orient ourselves.
The presence of special units of the FSB
Last interesting element to know to resituate the context of the time. Russian special units have come to reinforce the Ukrainian government forces (in particular the SBU). Read : In February, a good team of the FSB and Russian intelligence on a “walk” in Kiev
(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)
(*) Not to be confused with the Svoboda party. The amalgam is often made. But as much as Prawy Sektor is openly on the far right, manifesting a deliberate, even neo-Nazi, anti-Semitism; as much Svoboda is openly nationalist, but falling within a democratic framework.
