21 May 2014 15:43

Poroshenko wants intl commission to investigate Maidan, May 2 events in Odesa

KYIV. May 21 (Interfax) - The international investigations commission investigating the events in Kyiv should investigate the events that deal with people's deaths on Kyiv's Maidan in February and the tragedy that occurred in Odesa on May 2, Ukrainian presidential candidate Pyotr Poroshenko said.

"I will demand that the international investigative commission set up in the Council of Europe to investigate the Maidan events should also investigate the horrible events that occurred in Odesa on May 2," Poroshenko told a press conference in Odesa on Wednesday.

Poroshenko said he believes the commission will include representatives of European countries and Russia. "I do not rule out that [