Investigation has established that ex-President Viktor Yanukovych ousted during the Euromaidan revolution in February 2014 personally ordered the crackdown on the protest in Kyiv on November 30, 2013.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko demands that the law enforcement agencies report on the murders on the Independence Square in Kyiv during the Revolution of Dignity already next week.
A preliminary probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC) suggests that Ukraine's security forces used "excessive and indiscriminate" force in the 2014 EuroMaidan protests but are not guilty of crimes against humanity.
In August 2014, the SBU had planned a large-scale special operation to detain 20 policemen from notorious special Berkut unit suspected in committing crimes during the Maidan protests in 2014, but someone had tipped them in advance and they escaped from the country, chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios told a TV channel.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has instructed the executive authorities to make the necessary preparations to mark the Day of Dignity and Freedom in 2015.
The "Winter on Fire" movie about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity won the People's Choice documentary award (the main prize for documentaries) at the International Film Festival in Toronto.