Problems with Katchanovski “witness testimonies” in his Video Appendix B
Many Katchanovski "witnesses" of snipers in his Video Appendix B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU0jxKJ4LaY are not witnesses by definition since witnesses by definition are people who directly and immediately saw and heard witnessed events. During Maidan events, people used to retell other people stories and rumors which Katchanovski misrepresented them as original witness accounts in this Video Appendix B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU0jxKJ4LaY . The many told stories of peoples on Katchanovski's Video Appendix B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU0jxKJ4LaY hurdly could be defined as witness testimonies ( if they could be defined at all as witness testimonies ) since the names of these people, time, and circumstanses of their testimonies in many cases are not established by evidences, and they not delivered their testimonies under oath. Katchanovski must look up the definition of words “witness testimony”, and, to be honest researcher, he must give an advance notice in his Video Appendix B that the retold stories and rumors of other people and the stories of the people without established names of people, time, and circumstanses of their testimonies of maidan events actually are not witness testimonies.
One of the big problems with Ivan Katchanovski “research” is the intentional omitting and ignoring of opposite evidences and testimonies about bullets fired from the area controlled by government police and security forces. For example, Katchanovski refers to Trapezun testimony during an investigative experiment on 7:15 minutes of his Video Appendix B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU0jxKJ4LaY&t=436s However, Trapezun in the court changed his opinion about the bullet direction. Starting from 1:07:00 time of the court trial video https://youtu.be/gI2eS5Xfwt0?t=4021 and from 1:14:14 time of the court trial video https://youtu.be/gI2eS5Xfwt0?t=4454 , he explained that he initially imagined he was shot from the Hotel Ukraina, and he later became sure about shooting from the Berkut police barricade after the performance of the investigative experiment. Trapezun said he did not see a moment of firing and he only initially imagined the bullet direction from the Hotel Ukraina. After the investigative experiment he changed his opinion. Katchanovski dishonestly omitted this critical episode from his “research” and Video Appendix B.
During the Maidan masacre, people looking at direction of the police front line, heard reflected gunshot sounds from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings located in the Maidan area that why these gunshot sound reflections from buildings walls made the impression of gunshots fired from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings under Maidan control : https://archive.is/wrPqw#selection-1281.0-1281.278 ( translated into English by the Google translate and archived https://archive.ph/26DIb#selection-6049.0-6065.155 )
Many spoken stories of Katchanovski Video Appendix B refer to shootings from the Bank Arkada, Museum Lane, Cabmin ( Cabinet of ministers ) and Kyivmiskbud. However, according to numerous publicly available videos and other evidences, Maidan protesters never approached these locations which were firmly under control of the government police and security forces during the Maidan massacre. Also, it must be noted that Cabmin ( Cabinet of Ministers ) and Kyivmiskbud ( https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?t=163 , https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rassian_fakes/78051020/62048/62048_1000.jpg ) were located deep in the rear of the front line of government police and security forces during the massacre.
Ivan Katchanovski also mistranslated the spoken stories on his Video Appendix B. For example, on 21:15 minutes of Video Appendix B a policeman said that police saw people without weapons on building roofs and police only assumed that other people on building roofs have weapons. Ivan Katchanovski mistranslated this episode that people on building roofs have weapons.
Ivan Katchanovski claims that maidan protesters had weapons and fired from maidan controlled locations. It could be seen on a few videos that some maidan protesters had some weapons and fired from maidan controlled locations at the government police and security forces including Berkut police. But maidan protesters never deny that they had some weapons and fired from maidan controlled locations at the government police and security forces including Berkut police. However, maidan protesters never fired at other maidan protesters how this is misrepresented by Ivan Katchanovski in his "research".
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Ivan Katchanovski is a falsifier of the Maidan massacre and contemporary history of Ukraine:
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Author: Igor Romanenko