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Anti-government protesters run with an injured man on a stretcher in downtown Kiev, February 20, 2014.

‘Sniper’ tells the BBC he may have helped provoke a massacre in Ukraine

Conflict

The central event of the Ukrainian Revolution last year was a massacre of protesters in Maidan Square last February. A BBC investigation suggests the police shooting may have been provoked by opposition “snipers.”

Actor Bradley Cooper arrives for the premiere of the film "American Sniper" in New York on December 15, 2014.

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