Ukrainian Prosecutor General says Kiev has no evidence of Russian involvement in the February 2014 killings at Maidan

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin announced today that his agency has no evidence that Russia was involved in the killings of activists and police in Kiev in February 2014, during the violent conclusion of the Maidan Revolution. 

Previously, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the former chief of Ukraine's Security Service, claimed that Russian operatives were involved in the Maidan murders. Shokin says he asked for evidence proving this claim, but never received any. 

“I currently have no evidence pointing to Russian involvement in the shootings of the Heavenly Hundred. Based on the information we have now, it's not possible to reach such a conclusion—not because we're unable or unwilling to make such accusations, but because there's simply no basis for it currently,” Shokin said.

Valentyn Nalyvaichenko alleges that Kremin aide Vladislav Surkov played a role in the murders at Maidan in February 2014. He says Surkov led a group of snipers who fired on demonstrators. Nalyvaichenko also says three groups of Russian Federal Security Service agents visited Kiev between December 2013 and February 2014 to train Ukrainian police in the dispersal of mass demonstrations.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has also accused Russian officials of involvement in the Maidan killings. In February 2015, at the anniversary of the Maidan Revolution, he announced that Ukraine's Prosecutor General and National Security Service had established "clear evidence" of Russian involvement in the murders of Maidan activists.

The Russian Foreign Ministry says accusations that Surkov managed a team of snipers during the Maidan Revolution are nonsense. Vladimir Putin called the charges "absolute, complete nonsense so divorced from reality that you wonder how on Earth they dreamed it up."