It all centers on this man, Viktor Shokin,
Petro Poroshenko:
We are talking only about the reform of the prosecutor office, to make it independent, to make it more transparent.
Simon Ostrovsky:
Ukraine's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, was the epicenter of mass protests that toppled the pro-Russian regime of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 and led to Poroshenko's election. It was also the site of mass killings of protesters by security forces.
The former prosecutor Shokin's shadow is felt here acutely. In the eyes of many Ukrainians, his biggest failure was that nobody from the former regime was prosecuted for the killing of protesters here on Independence Square.
Parliamentarian Yehor Soboliev was the first official to demand the prosecutor's dismissal.
Yehor Soboliev:
It was time when people strongly hoped that murders here on Maidan will be investigated. It was time when people strongly hoped that great corruption in Yanukovych's presidency will be punished.
In 2015, I personally initiated the resignation of general prosecutor Shokin.
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