Research concludes the Maidan Square snipers were anti-government militants.

[karynnj]

111. True, but the very paper disputes the claims of the OP and his Russian source

1) The media did not clearly assign blame - they reported that both sides blamed each other. (That was what I had remembered and the various quotes to western media from the paper show there were reports that blamed the protesters.

2) I have no problem with the paper explaining the choice of models used. By POV, I was referring to what seemed to me to be a biased description of the known "facts". These - in addition to the theoretical models - influence the results.

3) the OP and his source claims this "proves" it was the protesters who shot people - not the government. This really overstates what the model did.

As to something better, I have not looked or seen anything that addresses the question and attempts to take all the independent primary sources of information into account -- and this does not attempt to do that. Most of the best reporting done reported claims from both sides and gave whatever supporting information they had.

I would guess that there will eventually be a good study of what happened, but, like with many historical reports, it might be decades before a definitive history is written about this --- and even then, there are likely to be people on both sides.

Unfortunately, there were people capable of doing something as deplorable as this on both sides. Personally, I don't have a strong belief that either side did it, but I have a very strong rejection of taking the various Putin sources as credible.