Ukraine’s former diplomat Andrey Telizhenko [told RT(https://www.rt.com/russia/623715-assassinated-mp-ordered-donbass-shellings/) yesterday that he witnessed the direct order in 2014 by then-Ukrainian official Andriy Parubiy to indiscriminately kill citizens of the Donbass. He reported: “During the cabinet of ministers meetings, [at] which I was present, Parubiy directly ordered the mass shellings of the people of Donbass. He said: ‘We do not care who those people are. Russians, they’re Moscali [a Ukrainian slur for Russians], we should kill them'.... That’s a direct citation from Parubiy during the cabinet of ministers meeting, in which he pushed to provoke the civil war in eastern Ukraine, which has now led to a big massive conflict.”
Parubiy, assassinated on Aug 30 in the street of Lviv, was one of the most overt cases of an overt neo-Nazi rising to the top of Kiev’s post-coup government, becoming Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (2016-19). Earlier, he had been the key figure responsible for providing transport, weapons and logistics for the team of snipers overlooking the Maidan, who, on Feb. 20, 2014, were ordered to fire upon both the Berkat police and the demonstrators. The explicit objective was to destroy the previous day’s peace agreement between the Yanukovych government and the demonstrators. That sniper operation, centered around Mamuka Mamulashvili, a military adviser of Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the members he recruited from Georgia’s defense and military personnel, was then institutionalized as the infamous “Georgian Legion.”
Yesterday, Telizhenko claimed even more, that Parubiy “was coordinating the radicals on Maidan, when to shoot, who to shoot and how to shoot, even whom to shoot [among] their own” and “provoking insurgents within the coup itself.” Further: “His team was responsible for blocking the anti-sniper unit [from] coming to Maidan.”
Previously, one of the sniper team, Zurab Inashvili, had divulged that members of the team were tasked to track the regular routes of President Viktor Yanukovych, and that an assassination was prepared. Yanukovych fled the capital on Feb. 22, 2014, and the elected government of Ukraine was replaced. It was then that Parubiy became the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) and advocated for the indiscriminate killings in the Donbass.
Telizhenko further reported that, later in 2014, he himself had been sent to Odessa by the First Deputy Prime Minister to investigate the torching of the Trade Unions Building, burning to death of dozens of the opponents of the coup in Kiev; and that Parubiy personally was involved in that assault, in the blocking of Telizhenko’s investigation, and, later, in covering up for the murders. “He was responsible for closing down the case and destroying the evidence [of] his involvement in the coordination of that terrorist attack.”
Of note, Telizhenko reported that Parubiy and his advisors were “working directly with the Jamestown Foundation, a former CIA central think tank in Washington, D.C.” Specifically, he claimed that his advisors were provided fellowships and training and were sent back to Parubiy, working with him when he was Speaker of the Rada. Aside from the dirty role of the Jamestown Foundation’s documented role reported on in EIR, Telizhenko’s report may stem from his time posted to Ukraine’s embassy in Washington.
