On it informs RIA Novosti news agency referring to a video published by journalist Tatiana Vysotskaya.
“Exactly five years ago, my day began with the fact that I went out to the Mariinsky Park ... At the fountain there was a chain of“ Berkut ”that, with pump-guns, shot at people ... After 15 minutes, there were 11 wounded - before my eyes . In an hour and a half, three dead, whom we tried to convey to the House of Officers, ”he said.
Poroshenko also indicated that in those days, activists appealed to him for help.
In the description of the video, the journalist noted that she had published the video, as she was outraged by the speech of the head of Ukraine, who “to put it mildly, exaggerates her participation and role” in the events that took place on February 18, 2014.
Earlier, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Nadezhda Savchenko, currently in custody, called on Ukrainians to enter a new “Maidan”.