The former commander of the Internal Troops of Ukraine Stanislav Shulyak gave the command to snipers to shoot at the protesters on Maidan.

This was stated by politician and public figure, the leader of the human rights movement "The Power of Law" Andrei Senchenko at a court hearing on the case of the fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych, reports Censor. NO".

"On this day, I received a call from First Deputy of the Internal Troops of Ukraine Konoplyannik. We have known each other for a long time. He called me early in the morning, asked me to go to the intersection of Sadovaya and Grushevsky, "he said..

He said that he met with Konoplyannik and went to the public garden.

"In the vicinity of 9 am from the right entrance of the Cabinet came out a group, in single file, guys in black uniform. In their hands they had long cases. He said that Shulyak ordered the snipers to go to the European Square. We watched them descend. There was a team - if at least someone would shake in the ranks of the Internal Troops, shoot at the defeat in the protesters, "Senchenko stressed..