German national TV channel ARD published a special report on the Maidan snipers affair, titled "Doubts About Reports of Maidan Snipers," on its primetime policy special "Monitor" on Thursday night. The program's team interviewed an anonymous member of the official Kiev investigation team, who said that his own investigations do not back the official version put out by the Ukrainian investigators at their press conference a few days ago, at which they presented a list of 12 snipers allegedly from the Berkut unit, world media report.
Tapped phone communications among Berkut officers during the Maidan shootouts made available to Monitor by a Ukrainian amateur radio expert, show, however, that the Berkut were taken entirely by surprise by the snipers' actions.
Video recordings show that the shots were fired also from the Ukraina Hotel, Monitor was told by an eyewitness of the events that shots were fired from the eighth or ninth floor of the hotel, and that the snipers must have been professionals.
