Ukraine Fails to Probe 2014 Deaths in Riots That Ousted Kiev Government

The Ukrainian government has failed to investigate bloodshed connected to the February 2014 riots that drove an elected government from office, Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told the Security Council on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — Last week, UN human rights monitors issued a report criticizing the Ukrainian government for failing to investigate rioter and law enforcement deaths in Kiev, Odessa and Mariupol.

"There is no progress in the investigation of such high profile tragic events as the shooting of people on Maidan, and the killing of people in Mariopol, the fire in Odessa in the house of professional unions," Churkin said. "The truth must be told and perpetrators brought to justice."

Maidan refers to Kiev’s central square where the 2014 bloody anti-government riots — supported by the United States and the European Union — begun in and spread to other cities in Ukraine.

Ukraine's new Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has promised to personally examine the investigation into the 2014 Odessa massacre, in which 48 people, the vast majority of which opposed the forced change of government in Ukraine, were burned alive.