Sept. 3—Ukraine’s former diplomat Andrey Telizhenko [told RT(https://www.rt.com/russia/623715-assassinated-mp-ordered-donbass-shellings/) Aug. 30 that he witnessed the direct order in 2014 by then-Ukrainian cabinet member Andriy Parubiy to indiscriminately kill citizens of the Donbass. He reported: “During the cabinet 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 was assassinated Aug 30 in the street of Lviv. NATO's Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported Sept. 1 that authorities have detained the man believed to be the assassin but offered no further information.
Parubiy was one of the most distinctive cases of an overt neo-Nazi rising to the top of Kyiv’s post-2014-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 dispatched to the Maidan, who Feb. 20, 2014, were ordered to fire upon both the Berkat police and the demonstrators. The explicit objective of that attack 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, with members he recruited from Georgia’s defense and military personnel, was then institutionalized as the infamous “Georgian Legion.”
Telizhenko claimed 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 an anti-sniper unit [from] coming to Maidan [to suppress the snipers].”
Previously, one of the sniper team, Zurab Inashvili, had reported that members of the team were tasked to track the regular routes of President Viktor Yanukovych, and thathis assassination was in the works. Yanukovych fled the capital Feb. 22, 2014, and his elected government of Ukraine was replaced by pro-NATO coupsters. 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, where dozens of the opponents of the coup in Kiev were burned to death; he said that Parubiy, who was personally was involved in that assault, blocked Telizhenko’s investigation, and, then 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.