Andrey Parubiy helped stoke the "civil war" that eventually led to the Ukraine conflict, Andrey Telizhenko has told RT

Andrey Parubiy, a far-right Ukrainian politician who was shot dead in Lviv on Saturday, directly ordered attacks on Donbass and provoked a "civil war" with eastern Ukraine after the Maidan coup, ex-Ukrainian diplomat Andrey Telizhenko has told RT.

Parubiy, an MP and former speaker of the Ukrainian Rada, played an active role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, as well as in the nationalist government it brought to power. He had deep and long-running ties to Ukraine's neo-Nazi movement, co-founding the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine.

"During the cabinet of ministers meetings, [at] which I was present, Parubiy directly ordered the mass shellings of the people of Donbass," Telizhenko told RT on Saturday.

"He said, 'We do not care who those people are. Russians, they're Moscali [a Ukrainian slur for Russians], we should kill them,'" the former diplomat, who was an adviser to Ukraine's prosecutor general at the time, said.

Parubiy and his team were "working directly with the Jamestown Foundation, a former CIA central think tank in Washington, DC," Telizhenko claimed.

According to Telizhenko, Parubiy directly coordinated the shootings during the Maidan coup.

"He was coordinating the radicals on Maidan, when to shoot, who to shoot and how to shoot, even who to shoot [among] their own" and "provoking insurgents within the coup itself," he said. "His team was responsible for blocking the anti-sniper unit [from] coming to Maidan."

Parubiy "also covered up the shootings" in the subsequent investigation, as well as blocking the probe into the 2014 Odessa massacre, Telizhenko said.

"He was responsible for closing down the case and destroying the evidence [of] his involvement in the coordination of that terrorist attack," he said.

The far-right MP was reportedly responsible for organizing, arming, and transporting the militants which burned 42 anti-Maidan activists to death in the Odessa Trade Unions House.