Two major media watchdogs have published studies of a campaign under way in Ukraine to discredit the Revolution of Dignity (the Euro-Maidan protests) and to push a narrative on Russia’s invasion of Crimea and military aggression in the Donbas which closely follows the Kremlin’s. The publications coincide with a Hromadske journalist’s probe of three Maidan cases that clearly disproves one of the underlying refrains, namely, the claim that there is no evidence against suspected Berkut killers.
Anastasia Stanko from Hromadske.ua was merely citing the kind of evidence that prosecutors from the former Special Investigations Departments have amassed over the last six years since the bloodiest days of Maidan. The automatic rifles almost certainly used to gun down protesters disappeared from the base after February 20, 2014, and were later found in a lake, with the numbers on them rubbed off.