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The truth in the "case of snipers" in Ukraine must be established transparently and in its entirety. This was stated by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov following a meeting of the CSTO Foreign Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, RIA Novosti reports.

Lavrov recalled that the agreement signed on February 21 on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine ", among other things, contained a clause on the joint investigation by the authorities and the then opposition." "Therefore, I do not presume to judge how verified and substantiated those statements that were made. At least they contradict the huge array of evidence of the opposite," the head of the Foreign Ministry said.

“We also heard other statements that were not intended for the general public in telephone conversations between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia Urmas Paet and the head of the EU diplomacy, Katherine Ashton. We proceed from the fact that the truth needs to be established transparently and in its entirety,” Lavrov noted.

Earlier on Thursday, acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Makhnitsky said that the then then President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych personally gave the order to shoot the activists of the Euromaidan in the center of Kiev on February 20. As the Prosecutor General’s Office established, the special forces of the Berkut special forces were fired by the demonstrators, who, from the moment of the formation of this unit, had the authority to use firearms, including automatic and sniper.

Information about the involvement in the crime of employees of other power units, in particular the special forces of the SBU Alpha, said, said Makhnitsky.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that the police established the individuals of all suspects in shooting. According to him, on Thursday morning, 12 people have already been detained in this case.

Later, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalivaichenko said that the SBU became interested in the involvement of the FSB in massacres in the Euromaidan in February 2014. According to him, during the protest of the SBU training ground, groups of FSB officers arrived twice. The first group of 26 people worked at the training ground on the 20th of December 2013, the second - six people in mid -January 2014. "We have reason to believe that these groups ... took part in the planning and implementation of measures for the so -called anti -terrorist operation," the head of the Ukrainian special services noted.

He added that the SBU would like to receive clarifications on this subject from the Investigative Committee of Russia. "We ask you to give an answer what they did, their titles and positions," said Nalyvaichenko.