The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine
The Mass Killing that Changed the World
Ivan Katchanovski
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Preface
This book analyzes the Maidan massacre of the protesters and the police
during the “Euromaidan” mass protests in Kyiv in Ukraine on February
20, 2014. This massacre is crucial case of political violence in Ukraine and
the world because it led to the overthrow of the Ukrainian government
and ultimately to the start of the civil war in Donbas, Russian military
interventions in Crimea and Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea,
and conflicts of Russia with Ukraine and the West which Russia escalated
dramatically by launching the illegal invasion and war with Ukraine in
2022.
This is the first scholarly book which analyzes comprehensively the
Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It is based on more than 10 years of my
research of this massacre and trials and investigations of this mass killing.
I am a Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist. I teach at the School
of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Previously, I was Visiting
Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at
the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. I
received my Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at
George Mason University under the direction of Seymour Martin Lipset,
one of the greatest political scientists and political sociologists.
My academic publications include 4 books, 12 book chapters, and 20
articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as this book and two forthcoming books concerning the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins and
modern Ukraine that will be published by major American and British
academic presses. I am one of the most cited political scientists who
specialize primarily in politics and conflicts in Ukraine. My research-based
publications, interviews, and comments appeared in more than 3,000
media reports in over 80 countries.
I am a life-long supporter of liberal democracy, human rights, and
peace in Ukraine and was one of the first to publicly call for the European
Union accession of Ukraine. I attended in 1988 the first small opposition
rally in Kyiv in some 80 years since Ukraine became Soviet. I was born
in Western Ukraine and educated in the Kyiv National Economic University, Central European University, and George Mason University.
I faced expulsion from the university in Kyiv in 1990 and was prevented from
pursuing graduate education in the Soviet Union because my undergraduate thesis, which was in Ukrainian, was based on theories of Max Weber
and Western economists and concluded that the Soviet system was bound
to collapse.
I presented my studies of the Maidan massacre at the following
academic conferences: The Annual Meeting of American Political Science
Association in San Francisco, September 3–6, 2015, the 22nd Annual
World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in
Columbia University, New York, May 4–6, 2017, the Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association in Boston, August 29–
September 2, 2018, the Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern
Europe and Russia since 1956 conference by the Institute for Russian
and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association
for Slavonic and East European Studies in Uppsala, Sweden, September
13–14, 2018, the Virtual 52nd Annual Convention of the Association for
Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 5–8 and 14–15,
2020, and the virtual 10th World Congress of the International Council
for Central and East European Studies, August 3–8, 2021.
Parts of my open-access articles in Russian Politics, Cogent Social
Sciences, and Journal of Labor and Society peer-reviewed journals, a
forthcoming open-access Routledge book, and, with publisher’s permission, my article in Canadian Dimension are republished in this book with
updated, revised, and greatly expanded content. Most of the book content
was previously not published. I received no outside financing for my
research of the Maidan massacre, with the exception of small travel and
publication grants and crowdfunding making my articles open access. I
am grateful to all those who supported my academic study of this crucial
massacre that changed Ukraine and the world.
Ottawa, ON, Canada Ivan Katchanovski
1 Introduction: The Massacre That Changed Ukraine
and the World 1
1.1 The Maidan Massacre and Its Impact 2
1.2 Data and Methodology 6
1.3 Theoretical Framework 8
2 Conflicting Narratives of the Maidan Massacre in Ukraine 21
2.1 Conflicting Government Narratives of the Maidan
Massacre 21
2.2 The Media Coverage of the Maidan Massacre 28
2.3 Misrepresentation of the Maidan Massacre by Wikipedia 32
2.4 Previous Academic Studies of the Maidan Massacre 34
3 Video Reconstruction and Content Analysis
of the Maidan Massacre on February 20, 2014 49
3.1 The Reconstruction of the Snipers’ Massacre
of the Police and the Protesters on the Maidan
in Ukraine 50
3.2 Shooting at Western, Polish, and Russian Journalists
During the Maidan Massacre 82
3.3 Overthrow of the Yanukovych Government 83
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4 Testimonies of Several Hundred Witnesses and 14
Self-Admitted Maidan Snipers 91
4.1 Testimonies by Over 300 Witnesses Concerning Maidan
Snipers 92
4.2 Confessions by 14 Self-Admitted Members of Maidan
Sniper Groups 121
5 Trial and Investigation Testimonies of Wounded
Maidan Activists and Witnesses 145
5.1 Testimonies of Wounded Maidan Activists Concerning
Snipers in Maidan-Controlled Locations 146
5.1.1 Hotel Ukraina Snipers 146
5.1.2 Zhovtnevyi Palace Snipers 154
5.1.3 Bank Arkada Snipers 155
5.1.4 Muzeinyi Lane, Music Conservatory,
and Other Maidan-Controlled Locations Snipers 156
5.1.5 Staged Wounding of a Female Maidan Medic 158
5.1.6 Government Forces-Controlled Buildings
and Areas Snipers 159
5.2 Testimonies by Prosecution Witnesses and Relatives
of Killed Maidan Activists Concerning Snipers
in Maidan-Controlled Locations 161
5.3 Testimonies of Defense Witnesses Concerning Maidan
Snipers 168
6 Forensic Ballistic and Medical Examinations
by Ukrainian Government Experts 177
7 The Maidan Massacre on February 18–19, 2014,
and Related Cases of Violence During the EuroMaidan
in Ukraine 195
7.1 The Maidan Massacre on February 18–19, 2014 196
7.2 Other Related Cases of Violence During the EuroMaidan 203
8 The Maidan Massacre Trial Verdict, and Cover-up,
Stonewalling, and Evidence Tampering 211
8.1 The Maidan Massacre Trial Verdict 212
8.2 Coverup, Stonewalling, and Evidence Tampering 224
CONTENTS xv
9 Conclusion and Implications for the Russia-Ukraine
War and Other Conflicts in Ukraine 249
Index 259
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“Katchanovski’s study is a model of contemporary social science research based on social media, testimonies of participants, and evidence and verdicts of subsequent legal trials. Analysis derived from the data is unparalleled in the study of extra-legal politics in post-Soviet Ukraine. This is a convincing book which should be read by everyone interested in knowing the truth about current developments in Ukraine and especially the underlying causes of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.” (David Lane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University)
“A courageous and important study of one of the most momentous events in recent history. Based on a painstaking analysis of the available evidence, Katchanovski demonstrates how the false flag shootings of 18-20 February 2014 unfolded and their impact on subsequent developments in Ukraine. If a single book can change our understanding of a historical event, this is it.” (Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent, UK)
From the Back Cover
“A courageous and important study of one of the most momentous events in recent history. Based on a painstaking analysis of the available evidence, Katchanovski demonstrates how the false flag shootings of 18–20 February 2014 unfolded and their impact on subsequent developments in Ukraine. If a single book can change our understanding of a historical event, this is it.”
―Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent, UK
“Katchanovski’s study is a model of contemporary social science research based on social media, testimonies of participants, and evidence and verdicts of subsequent legal trials. Analysis derived from the data is unparalleled in the study of extra-legal politics in post-Soviet Ukraine. This is a convincing book which should be read by everyone interested in knowing the truth about current developments in Ukraine and especially the underlying causes of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.”
―David Lane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational action to explore the massacre.
The book draws on publicly available videos, photos and audio recordings of the massacre in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and other languages, along with several hundred individual testimonies and revelations from the Ukrainian investigation and a trial and its verdict. By examining which parties were responsible for the massacre, the book analyses its implications for not only Russia’s war on Ukraine but also political developments across the globe.
Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. He held academic positions at Harvard University, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the University of Toronto, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 5 books, 2 forthcoming books, 20 articles in peer- reviewed journals, and 12 book chapters. He is the author of the forthcoming book From the Maidan to the Russia-Ukraine War.
About the Author
Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. He held academic positions at Harvard University, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the University of Toronto, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 5 books, 2 forthcoming books, 20 articles in peer- reviewed journals, and 12 book chapters. He is the author of the forthcoming book From the Maidan to the Russia-Ukraine War.
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