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A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine's elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag
designed to trigger regime change.Two police officers charged with the mass shooting of opposition protesters in Kiev's Maidan Square in 2014 have been released after a Ukrainian court determined
the fatal shots in the infamous massacre were fired from an opposition-controlled building.On October 18, 2023, Ukraine's Sviatoshyn District Court determined that
of the five officers on trial, one would be acquitted outright, while another was sentenced to time served for alleged "abuse of power."
The remaining three, who no longer live in Ukraine,
were convicted in absentia on 31 counts of murder and 44 counts of attempted murder. This, under a Supreme Court opinion
stipulating suspects can be held collectively responsible for the actions of a group deemed criminal.
The verdict means
no one will face jail time, or be in any way punished for their alleged role in the infamous Maidan massacre, which saw over 100 protesters killed, triggered an avalanche of international condemnation and led directly to the downfall of President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country mere days later.
Comment: Could it be that both cosmic catastrophes, in addition to human activity, had noticeable impacts on the populations of megafauna?
There's a variety of evidence showing that cometary bombardment and the accompanying environmental shifts wrought havoc on our planet, and life on it changed (repeatedly) as a result. At the same time, it's likely that human migrations and population centres would have sought to benefit from, and control, their environment; which would have involved hunting, but also possibly alongside other measures - such as controlled culls - that sought to ameliorate living alongside such massive, and potentially lethal, creatures.
It seems that the drastic changes in the environment was the strongest driver behind the megafauna extinctions, but is it possible that this genetic data hints at some of the impact that human activity had?