[mac_truck]

If it was the government doing the sniping, it would have been in the open, just a plain old assault.

Another screen cap from the same video link...the trees showing bullet holes coming from the hotel were destroyed after Yanukovich was overthrown.

[NorseViking]

Exactly. The story of Yanukovich ordering snipers to shoot the protestors makes no sense and long-debunked.
The coupsters ordered the documents destroyed and the trees removed from the square, but witnesses, video and photographic evidence saying that the shooting came from their side won’t disappear.