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The Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian: Революція гідності, romanized: Revoliutsiia hidnosti), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, [2] took place in Ukraine in February 2014 [2] [1] [26] [27] [28] at the end of the Euromaidan protests, [1] when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of ...
Altogether, 108 civilian protesters and 13 police officers were killed [1] in Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity (or the 'Maidan Revolution'), which was the culmination of the Euromaidan protest movement. The deaths occurred in January and February 2014; most of them on 20 February, when police snipers fired on anti-government activists in Kyiv.
In 2014 Belarusian-Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa released the documentary Maidan. It was filmed by several cameramen instructed by Loznitsa during the revolution in 2013 and 2014 and depicts different aspects, from peaceful rallies to the bloody clashes between police and protesters. [387]
A Ukrainian court on Wednesday handed a former police officer a life sentence and gave two others 15-year prison terms over the deaths of dozens of people shot dead in 2014 during protests that ...
Taras Ratushnyy remembers receiving a phone call from his son Roman during Ukraine’s deadly 2013 Maidan Revolution. ... on February 18, 2014, during the Maidan Revolution. - Efrem Lukatsky/AP.
Immediately, pro-Russian unrest erupted across Ukraine and the Russian military annexed Crimea, resulting in the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In Kyiv, pro-Maidan protestors stated that the barricades at Maidan Nezalezhnosti would stand till at least 25 May 2014, the day of the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election. [410]
After a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine's 2014 Maidan Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea and began giving military support to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Those forces ...
The two Ukrainian soldiers who were killed are regularly included in the military death toll from the war in Donbass. [11] On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armyansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation. [12]