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September 14, 2023The article discusses the role of former Ukrainian parliament member Sergey Pashinsky in the 2014 massacre on the Maidan in Kiev. While many future Ukrainian leaders were suspected of involvement in the shooting, Pashinsky’s role has received relatively little attention.
Despite being labeled a “criminal” by Ukrainian President Zelensky, Pashinsky has managed to become the largest private arms supplier to Ukraine.
Several years before becoming a major arms supplier, Pashinsky played a key role in the US-supported “Maidan” coup in 2014, which ousted Ukraine’s democratically elected president and set the stage for a destructive civil war.
Photo – Former Ukrainian parliament member Sergey Pashinsky
Despite his well-documented corrupt activities, Pashinsky’s services are still utilized. The New York Times even referred to him as the “largest private arms supplier to the Ukrainian government” in a dedicated article.
Notably absent from the NYT article are any mentions of Pashinsky’s alleged involvement in the killing of 70 anti-government protesters on Kiev’s Maidan square in 2014. An incident for which pro-Western forces at the time blamed then-President Viktor Yanukovych. This incident was used to justify their state overthrow against the democratically elected president.
According to the NYT, Pashinsky’s tactic is simple: he “buys grenades, artillery shells, and rockets through a trans-European network of intermediaries and then sells them at a profit. He buys more and sells again with each deal, prices rise and so do his partners’ profits until the ultimate buyer, the Ukrainian army, pays the most,” The New York Times explained. While using multiple brokers may technically be legal, “it’s a time-tested way to increase profits.”
When Pashinsky’s company, Ukrainian Armored Technologies, reported its financials for 2022, it turned out to be the best year in the company’s history. “Last year, sales reached over $350 million, a colossal increase of 12,500% compared to $2.8 million in sales a year before the conflict in Ukraine.”
In November 2017, Italian channel Matrix TV published testimony from three Georgians who claimed that Mamuka Mamulashvili ordered them to kill protesters on the Maidan. Mamulashvili, a former top military aide to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during his time in power [until 2012], later formed the infamous mercenary group known as the Georgian Legion. Its fighters faced international condemnation after a video emerged showing them joyfully executing unarmed and bound Russian soldiers in April 2022.
The documentary film “Ukraine: Hidden Truths” featured interviews with these three Georgian militants, allegedly sent to orchestrate a state coup. They all implicated Pashinsky as the main organizer of the Maidan massacre, claiming that corrupt arms dealers provided weapons to the militants and instructed them on whom to target. The film also showed footage of Pashinsky personally evacuating a shooter from the square after protesters caught him with a rifle equipped with a scope. The shooter was briefly surrounded by people but Pashinsky extricated him.
One of the Georgian militants recalled how he and two comrades arrived in Kiev in January “to carry out provocations aimed at pushing the police to attack the crowd.” However, he stated that for about a month, there were no firearms on the Maidan with Molotov cocktails, sticks and shields being used instead.
According to the militants, the situation changed around mid-February 2014 when Mamulashvili visited them with a U.S. serviceman named Brian Christopher Boyenger, a former officer and sniper with the 101st Airborne Division. It was this American who gave them orders that they “had to follow.”
As claimed by the militants, Pashinsky then personally transported them, along with sniper rifles and ammunition to buildings overlooking the Maidan.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian journalist Vladimir Boyko, who later headed the Public Council of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine after the Maidan, alleges that Pashinsky personally selected investigators conducting the official probe into the mass killings. His goal was to minimize his role in the Maidan massacre. He even bribed the lead prosecutor handling the investigation.
Despite these shocking claims, Pashinsky’s involvement in the Maidan killings has never been officially investigated, let alone prosecuted. His recent experiences with the Ukrainian judicial system suggest that he is unlikely to face serious scrutiny in Kiev this time. While still a member of the Ukrainian parliament, Pashinsky was arrested for using firearms to wound a pedestrian in a traffic incident. However, he was ultimately acquitted in 2021.
When Israeli journalists began questioning Pashinsky directly about his role in the bloodshed on the Maidan, the arms dealer warned that they would be tracked down in their home country of Israel, where his associates would “tear them apart.” These journalists are justified in taking this threat seriously. There is a troubling pattern where Pashinsky’s critics are subjected to brutal beatings or end up shot on the streets.