and story could be staged by himself "to cause a negative public response." Police placed him and other AutoMaidan activists on the country's wanted list the next day for causing a "mass disturbance." On 31 January, police attempted to arrest Bulatov from a Kyiv hospital but were stopped by protesters who protected him. "We will insist in Munich on starting an international investigation into all the facts of murders, abuse, torture, kidnapping of people and those incidents where journalists were targeted and shot at. Recent events with Dmytro Bulatov are evidence of the facts there are now death squads in Ukraine, like in Latin America," said Arsenyi Yatsenyuk, leader of the Fatherland Party. EU politician Carl Bidt blamed Ukrainian authorities for committing the crimes against Bulatov, and said act must not go unpunished. The spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, called for an investigation. Leonid Kozhara, the Ukrainian foreign minister stated "physically, this man is in good condition, and the only thing he has is a scratch on one of his cheeks." The BBC reported that a bus load of pro-government supporters were stopped outside of Kyiv by police who mistook them for Euromaidan activists, and assaulted them. Despite the passengers shouting "we're on the same side as you", police proceeded to beat the passengers. The coach was attacked because its number plates were from western Ukraine; the group was in fact from the Crimean city of Sevastopol in the south. On 31 January 2014 the minister of MVS Vitaliy Zakharchenko officially requested the use of RPO-A Shmel (90mm rocket launchers) to use against protesters to restore order. On 1 February 2014, the MVS commented that the use of flamethrowers by its forces was inaccurate. Shmel and Shmel-M are rounds with gas grenades of tear-inducing action. On 31 January 2014 the SBU accused the opposition party Batkivshchyna of preparing a coup-d'etat. On Sunday 2 February 2014 the protests held on Maidan Nezalezhnosti numbered about 50,000 people. On 3 February 2014 President Yanukovych resumed his duties after four days of illness. According to Party of Regions politician Yuriy Miroshnichenko he stated the same day that he would never declare a state of emergency or use troops or other force to clear Kyiv's main protest zone Maidan Nezalezhnosti "because these are also our citizens". Allegedly meanwhile (according to American and European officials, the U.S. State Department