Apr 23, 2015

Polish MP: ‘Maidan snipers trained in Poland’

Protesters use sniper rifles during the most violent moments of the protest in Maidan square. Kiev, Ukraine. Photo: Mstyslav Chernov / UnFrame

Snipers who are thought to have operated in Kiev’s Independence Square amidst events that led to a coup in February 2014 were trained in Poland and sent to Ukraine to “do a favor” for the US, a Polish Euro-MP claimed in an interview. […]

In a new development, Polish former presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke told Wiadomosci media outlet that the snipers had actually been trained in Poland.

Korwin-Mikke, 72, a European lawmaker and leader of Poland’s conservative KORWiN party, claimed this was a CIA operation. This came as a “Yes” reply to the question whether he believed the CIA was involved.

“Yes – but it was also our operation. The snipers were trained in Poland,” Korwin-Mikke said adding this was done “to provoke riots.”

Poland trained those “terrorists” to please the US, which invested heavily into Ukrainian coup, the politician alleged.

“Let me say this again: we are doing a favor to Washington,” Korwin-Mikke said.

Challenged about his sources, the politician said he overheard this in the European Parliament as Estonia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Urmas Paet “admitted” to the then-EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton that it was “our people who opened fire on Maidan, not those of Yanukovich or Putin.” […]