Serhiy Pashynskyi
 Serhiy Pashynskyi    (Businessman, Politician) | |
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| Born | 14 October 1966 Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | National Pedagogical Dragomanov University |
Ukrainian politician who is accused to have been involved in the planning and execution of the Maidan Square massacre | |
Serhiy Volodymyrovych Pashynskyi is an Ukrainian politician. From 5 March to 20 June 2014, Pashynskyi was the acting head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.
Maidan Square massacre
- Full article: 2014 Ukraine coup/Maidan snipers
- Full article: 2014 Ukraine coup/Maidan snipers
Pashynskyi is said to have been involved in the organization and execution of the sniper attack in Kiev on 20 February 2014, according to a report by The Grayzone:[1]
In November 2017, Italy’s Matrix TV channel published eyewitness accounts by three Georgians who say they were ordered to kill protesters by Mamuka Mamulashvili. Then the top-ranking military aide to Georgian president Mikhael Saakashvili, Mamulashvili later founded the infamous mercenary brigade known as the Georgian Legion, whose fighters were widely condemned after they published a gruesome video of themselves gleefully executing unarmed and bound Russian soldiers in April 2022.
The documentary, “Ukraine: The Hidden Truth,” features an Italian journalist’s interviews with three Georgian fighters allegedly sent to orchestrate the coup. All described Pashinsky as a key organizer and executor of the Maidan massacre, even alleging the corrupt arms dealers provided weapons and selected specific targets. The film also featured footage of him personally evacuating a shooter from the Square, after they had been caught with a rifle and a scope by protesters and surrounded.
One of the Georgian fighters recalled how he and his two associates arrived in Kiev in January, “to arrange provocations to push the police to charge the crowd.” For almost a month, however, “there were not many weapons around,” and “molotov [cocktails], shields and sticks were used to the maximum.”
This changed around mid-February, they said, when Mamualashvili personally visited them alongside a US soldier named Brian Christopher Boyenger, a former officer and sniper in the 101st Airborne Division, who personally gave them orders they “had to follow.”
