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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.
On 2 April 2014, Yanukovych gave an interview to Russian and foreign media: [12] Immediately after the signing of the agreement, I began to fulfill the obligations that the government assumed. As the President of Ukraine, I instructed the police to retreat from the Maidan without delay. The radical faction responded with shooting...
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 ...
February 23 – Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is blocked by Ukraine's customs in Donetsk from taking a plane to Russia and leaves to Russia with the help of the Russian fleet. [12] February 24 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution. The European Commission recognizes Oleksandr Turchynov as Ukraine's legitimate interim president.
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]
At home in L.A.’s Studio City, filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky carefully unfolds a blue-and-white Ukrainian flag. The once-bright hues are darkened with soot, the fabric frayed at the edges. The ...
Taras Ratushnyy remembers receiving a phone call from his son Roman during Ukraine’s deadly 2013 Maidan Revolution.