In response, Prime Minister During a press conference on 3 April 2014, Ukraine's new interior minister, chief prosecutor, and top security chief implicated more than 30 Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents in the crackdown on protesters, saying that, in addition to taking part in the planning, the agents had flown shipments of large quantities of explosives into an airport near Kyiv.

Hundreds of Berkut began throwing grenades, two of which injured U.S. photographer Mark Estabrook and countless others while discharging their pistols and shotguns. It should be the goal of the entire civilized world.” In Parubiy’s dangerously unhinged thinking, even the massacre at the Trade Unions building in Odessa on 2 May “when Molotov cocktails were thrown from the fourth floor at the participants of the Ukrainian rally, the substance inflamed” and an “explosion happened.”
He also said that while the 21 February agreement could have calmed the situation, the opposition had not agreed to it.On 1 March, Russia's parliament approved a request from President Protests originally erupted in November 2013 after Yanukovych refused to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the Yanukovych was widely disliked in Ukraine's west but had some support in the east, where his native Russian is much more spoken, and in the south. I'm praising their ability and their desire to demonstrate peacefully for change that I think they deserve. Ukraine_shooting_directions_2Former SBU chief Yakimenko said in March the first shots Parubiy must know by now where the snipers were, but he doesn’t want to tell us yet. Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko appeared covered with powder after he was sprayed with a fire extinguisher. Demonstrators threw stun grenades, filling the park with smoke. :After the forced police dispersal of all protesters from Maidan Nezalezhnosti on the night of 30 November, the dismissal of Ukrainian students nationwide have also demanded the dismissal of Our three demands to the Verkhovna Rada and the president remained unchanged: the resignation of the government; the release of all political prisoners, first and foremost; [the release of former Ukrainian Prime Minister] Yulia Tymoshenko; and [the release of] nine individuals [who were illegally convicted after being present at a rally on Bankova Street on December 1]; the suspension of all criminal cases; and the arrest of all Berkut officers who were involved in the illegal beating up of children on Maidan Nezalezhnosti.The opposition also demanded that the government resumed negotiations with the IMF for a The Euromaidan protest movement began late at night on 21 November 2013, as a peaceful protest.On 30 November 2013, the protests were dispersed violently by the On 19 January, a Sunday mass protest, the ninth in a row, took place gathering up to 200,000 in central Kiev to protest against the new anti-protest laws, dubbed the Dictatorship laws. The investigation will reveal from which points they were shooting, but I can already say that they did everything they could to spill blood and provoke civil unrest.”From February 18-20, security forces and civilians were, as Parubiy says, killed somewhat First, consider how ten unarmed policemen were shot dead the night of February 18th, forcing a decision to bring in armed security forces. On 5 March 2014, 7,000–10,000 people rallied in support of Euromaidan in the same place.Pro-government rallies during Euromaidan have largely been credited as funded by the government. On 27 February armed men seized the Crimean parliament and raised the Russian flag.In the beginning of March, thousands of Crimean Tatars in support of Euromaidan clashed with pro-Russian protesters in Simferopol.

But whatever led the investigators to this apparently dead-end admission, it seemed like a break in the script that put the snipers in areas secured by the government of then-president Viktor Yanukovych.

Mouvement de révolte populaire contre un pouvoir criminel, Maïdan a rassemblé toutes les couches de la société et des manifestants issus des différentes régions du pays, mais les entrepreneurs et l’intelligentsia en ont été les forces vives. It's now about ousting Yanukovych and his corrupt government; guiding Ukraine away from its 200-year-long, deeply intertwined and painful relationship with Russia; and standing up for basic human rights to protest, speak and think freely and to act peacefully without the threat of punishment.A turning point came in late February, when enough members of the In early 2019, a Ukrainian court found Yanukovych guilty of treason.


For those following the details, the May 13 revelation seemed like a bit of realism creeping in. Yanukovych was also charged with asking Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to invade Ukraine after he had fled the country.

At least 82 people were killed over the next few days, including 13 policemen; more than 1,100 people were injured.On 18 February, some 20,000 Euromaidan protesters advanced on On 19 February, the authorities instituted police checkpoints, restrictions on public transportation, and school closures in Kyiv, which the media referred to as a Despite the agreement, thousands continued to protest in central Kyiv, and the demonstrators took full control of the city's government district: the parliament building, the president's administration quarters, the cabinet, and the Interior Ministry.On 22 February, the protesters were reported to be in control of Kyiv, and Yanukovych was said to have fled the capital for eastern Ukraine.On 28 February, Yanukovych attended a press conference in southern Russia and answered questions from mostly Russian reporters. Did they even exist, outside these vague reports? … if Putin succeeds in Ukraine, nobody can tell where his tanks will be tomorrow. The latter resulted in the buses being burned as a barricade. We want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. This resulted in 8–9 people dead. By Guest Author Last updated Oct 27, 2019.