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The same as the police who had Molotov cocktails thrown at them and were burned alive.
Official Maidan case records reviewed by the Council of Europe say the 13 law-enforcement deaths in Kyiv were from gunshot/firearm wounds, not from being burned alive by Molotov cocktails.
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This sentence gets the cause of the police deaths wrong.
The most specific official summary I found is the Council of Europe International Advisory Panel's report on the Maidan investigations. In its statistics section, the report says the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that 13 law-enforcement officers died from gunshot wounds in Kyiv. In the section specifically about those deaths, it again says the relevant casefile concerns 13 law-enforcement officers who sustained firearm injuries on 18–20 February 2014.
That directly contradicts the claim that police on Maidan were "burned alive" by Molotov cocktails. Molotov cocktails were used during the clashes, but the official death records summarized in this report attribute the officers' deaths to gunshot/firearm wounds, not burning.
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- Report of the International Advisory Panel (Council of Europe)
The MoI informed the Panel that 13 law enforcement officers had died from gunshot wounds in Kyiv... Annex X: MoI casefile no. 42014000000000061 concerns the death of 13 law enforcement officers who sustained firearm injuries on 18-20 February 2014 in Khreshchatyk and Instytutska Streets.