Ukraine crisis : Snipers filmed 'shooting at protesters' in Kiev

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20 questions: What's behind Ukraine's political crisis?

By Saeed Ahmed. Greg Botelho and Marie-Louise Gumuchian, CNN

February 20, 2014 -- Updated 2126 GMT (0526 HKT)

A high-ranking police officer, left, and a representative for the protesters speak with each other near the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev on February 20.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Ukraine has been rattled by anti-government protests since November
The trigger then was the President's decision not to sign a trade pact with the EU
Ukraine is split: Some want to align more with the West, others favor Russia
The opposition has also pushed to shift power away from the President

(CNN) -- For three months, they've staked their claim to Kiev's Maidan, or Independence Square, and to Ukraine itself. We will leave only when you pull closer to the European Union, when you change the constitution, when you alter the government's power structure, they have loudly insisted.

But why?

Why have thousands of protesters staked their lives, seemingly, on their desire for political change? And why has the government resisted their calls so vehemently?

Let's take a look:

1. What prompted the protests?

At the heart of the protests is a trade pact. For a year, President Viktor Yanukovych insisted he was intent on signing a historical political and trade agreement with the European Union. But on November 21, he decided to suspend talks with the EU.

2. What would the pact have done?

The deal, the EU's "Eastern Partnership," would have created closer political ties and generated economic growth. It would have opened borders to trade and set the stage for modernization and inclusion, supporters of the pact said.

3. Why did Yanukovych backpedal?

He had his reasons. Chief among them was Russia's opposition to it. Russia threatened its much smaller neighbor with trade sanctions and steep gas bills if Ukraine forged ahead. If Ukraine didn't, and instead joined a Moscow-led Customs Union, it would get deep discounts on natural gas, Russia said.

4. Were there any other reasons?

Yes, a more personal one. Yanukovych also was facing a key EU demand that he was unwilling to meet: Free former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter political opponent. Two years ago, she was found guilty of abuse of office in a Russian gas deal and sentenced to seven years in prison, in a case widely seen as politically motivated. Her supporters say she needs to travel abroad for medical treatment.

5. What happened next?

Many Ukrainians were outraged. They took to the streets, demanding that Yanukovych sign the EU deal. Their numbers swelled. The demonstrations drew parallels to Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, which booted Yanukovych, then a prime minister, from office.

6. Who's heading the opposition?

It's not just one figure, but a coalition. The best known figure is Vitali Klitschko. He's a former world champion boxer (just like his brother Wladimir). Klitschko heads the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms party. But the oppositon bloc goes well beyond Klitschko and the UDAR. There's also Arseniy Yatsenyuk. (More on him later.)

7. How did Yanukovych react?

In a way that inflamed passions further. He flew to Moscow, where he and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would buy $15 billion in Ukrainian debt and slash the price Kiev pays for its gas. And then, when the demonstrations showed no signs of dying down, he adopted a sweepting anti-protest law.

8. What did the anti-protest law say?

The law barred people from wearing helmets and masks to rallies and from setting up tents or sound equipment without prior police permission. This sparked concerns it could be used to put down demonstrations and deny people the right to free speech -- and clashes soon escalated. The demonstrators took over City Hall for the better part of three months.

9. But wasn't the law repealed?

Yes, ultimately it was. Amid intense pressure, deputies loyal to Yanukovych backtracked and overturned it. But by then, the protests had become about something much bigger: constitutional reform.

10. What change in the constitution did they want to see?

The protesters want to see a change in the government's overall power structure. They feel that too much power rests with Yanukovych and not enough with parliament.

11. What did the government do?

In late January, the President offered a package of concessions under which Yatsenyuk, the opposition leader, would have become the prime minister and, under the President's offer, been able to dismiss the government. He also offered Klitschko the post of deputy prime minister on humanitarian issues. He also agreed to a working group looking at changes to the constitution. But the opposition refused.

12. Why did the opposition pass on the offer?

The concessions weren't enough to satisfy them. They said Yanukovych had hardly loosened his grip on the government, nor had he seemingly reined in authorities' approach to protesters. "We're finishing what we started," Yatsenyuk said.

13. But over the weekend, it seemed things were getting better, weren't they?

Yes. On Sunday, protesters vacated Kiev's City Hall, unblocked a major street and left other government buildings in exchange for the government dropping charges against those arrested. But any breakthrough was a distant memory by Tuesday.

14. Why? What happened Tuesday?

The opposition wanted to introduce amendments in parliament that would have limited the President's powers and restored the constitution to what it was in 2004. But the speaker of parliament refused to allow it. Bloody clashes followed.

15. Who was to blame for the clashes?

Depends on whom you ask. The government pointed the finger at protesters. The opposition, in turn, blamed the government. Regardless, it was the bloodiest day of protests up to that point; 28 people died.

16. Wasn't there a truce called?

Yes, the government and opposition agreed on a truce late Wednesday. But it barely took hold -- and blood was flowing again Thursday.

17. What caused the fresh clashes?

Gunfire erupted Thursday at Maidan, or Independence Square, which has been ground zero for anti-government protesters. At least 20 people died. It's unclear what prompted the gunfire. Again, finger-pointing followed: The government said protesters broke the truce; the protesters said the government did.

18. So, what happens next?

Top international diplomats have been trying to resolve the crisis. There's also been talk of sanctions.

19. Will sanctions help?

Analysts warn there's little that outside pressure could do, especially if the Ukrainian military gets involved on the side of the government.

20. What's the takeaway here?

Street protests that started in November over a trade pact have swelled into something much bigger -- a demand that the President loosen his grip on power and the constitution be changed. As a result, the eastern European country is in the midst of a wave of anti-government protests, the likes of which it hasn't seen in 10 years.

There's something else: Ukraine, the biggest frontier nation separating Russia and the European Union, is something of a pawn between Russia and the West. The EU and the U.S. think Russia wields a lot of influence. Russia denies it.

One open-ended question is how much worse it will all get.

"My own hunch," said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, "is this is going to continue to escalate."

 

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Ukraine crisis: Footage emerges of police 'hostages'

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Published on Feb 20, 2014

An amateur video posted online appears to show a number of policemen taken hostage by anti-government protesters in Ukraine.

On Thursday, officials said that 67 police officers had been captured by protesters.

In the unverified video, the unknown cameraman claims to have seen several groups of hostages being marched through the city.

The 'hostages' - wearing blue uniforms with black collars - are seen holding onto each others' shoulders, being kept in a line by men in plain clothes.

 

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Ukraine presidency says deal reached on crisis, opposition silent

Tribune wire reports

1:34 a.m. CST, February 21, 2014

KIEV — Ukraine's presidency said on Friday a deal had been reached at all-night talks on resolving the country's crisis after 75 people were killed in two days of the worst violence since Soviet times.

But the opposition did not immediately confirm agreement had been reached and diplomatic sources described the talks brokered by three European Union ministers as "very difficult".

Three hours of fierce fighting on Thursday in Kiev's Independence Square, which was recaptured by protesters demanding President Viktor Yanukovich quit, left the bodies of civilians strewn on the ground close to where talks took place.

A few thousand people were occupying the square on Friday morning but there was no sign of any new violence after Thursday's bloodshed in Kiev, which is caught in a geopolitical tug-of-war between East and West.

Yanukovich's press service said in a statement that agreement had been reached at the talks and added: "The agreement will be signed at midday (1000 GMT)."

The three EU ministers, from Poland, Germany and France, did not immediately comment on the presidency statement

EU officials went into the talks on Thursday hoping a plan for an interim government and early elections could bring peace.

France's foreign minister said late on Thursday there was still no agreement over a proposed road map to ease the crisis, which began in November after Yanukovich spurned a trade deal with the European Union and turned instead towards Moscow.

Shortly before the presidency statement was released, the Standard & Poor's agency lowered Ukraine's credit rating, saying the future of the country's leadership looked more uncertain than at any time since the crisis began. This could affect the delivery of financial aid promised by Russia, it said.

The violence has hit the Ukrainian currency, the cost of insuring the country's debt has risen and a senior general dealt Yanukovich another blow by tendering his resignation over the bloodshed, saying he feared more.

PETROL BOMBS

On Thursday, riot police were captured on video shooting from a rooftop at demonstrators in the central plaza, also known as the Maidan. Protesters hurled petrol bombs and paving stones to drive the security forces off a corner of the square the police had captured in battles that began two days earlier.

The health ministry said 75 people had been killed since Tuesday afternoon, which meant at least 47 died in Thursday's clashes. That was by far the worst violence since Ukraine emerged from the crumbling Soviet Union 22 years ago.

Yanukovich's position was looking increasingly difficult, especially after the resignation of Lieutenant-General Yuri Dumansky, deputy head of the armed forces general staff.

"The armed forces of Ukraine are being drawn into a civil conflict. This could be the cause of a large number of deaths of civilians and servicemen," Dumansky told Channel 5 television. "I have decided to tender my resignation to avoid an escalation and bloodshed."

Standard & Poor's said the political situation in Ukraine had deteriorated substantially and this raised uncertainty about the financial aid promised by Russia under a $15 billion bailout package needed to help Kiev repay huge debts.

The second instalment, of $2 billion, is expected to be paid soon but Moscow has signalled that Yanukovich must first restore order in the country of 46 million to get it.

"We consider that the future of the current Ukrainian leadership is now more uncertain than at any time since the protests began in November 2013," the ratings agency said.

SANCTIONS

The trio of visiting foreign ministers met Yanukovich and the opposition after EU colleagues in Brussels imposed targeted sanctions on Ukraine and threatened more if the authorities failed to restore calm.

In further diplomatic efforts, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in turn discussed Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The White House said Obama and Merkel agreed it was "critical" U.S. and EU leaders "stay in close touch in the days ahead on steps we can take to support an end to the violence and a political solution that is in the best interests of the Ukrainian people". Earlier this month, bugged and leaked diplomatic phone calls exposed EU-U.S. disagreement on Ukraine.

Yanukovich has refused to consider calls to hold an early election, a year before his term is due to end.

In Kiev, demonstrators on Independence Square held a vigil after dark on Thursday for fallen comrades, lit by mobile phone screens held aloft. Medics carried bodies on stretchers through lines of protesters who chanted "Heroes, heroes" to the dead.

Though armed militants on the barricades tend to be from the far-right fringe, the opposition has broad support. But many Ukrainians also fear violence is slipping out of control.

Kiev residents emptied bank machines of cash and stockpiled groceries, with many staying off the streets. In further signs of faltering support for Yanukovich, his hand-picked head of Kiev's city administration quit the ruling party in protest at the bloodshed.

In an indication that Yanukovich is also losing support in parliament, the assembly late on Thursday adopted a resolution urging authorities to stop shooting, withdraw police from the centre of Kiev and end the action against the protesters.

But core loyalists were still talking tough. Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko said on Thursday police had been issued with combat weapons and would use them "in accordance with the law" to defend themselves.

Reuters

 

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FEMEN's Inna Shevchenko strips off at Cinema for Peace gala *EXPLICIT*

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Berlin's annual Cinema for Peace event got underway on Monday at the Konzerthaus, with FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko astounding the red carpet media by revealing her breasts from underneath her black gown.

Shevchenko was accompanying film directors Arash T. Riahi and Arman T. Riahi, who have made the documentary 'Everyday Rebellion', which features the activists FEMEN in Kiev, Paris and Stockholm.

Various Hollywood stars adorned the red carpet including actress Uma Thurman from Nymphomaniac, and French actress Catherine Deneuve. The Cinema for Peace award ceremony aims to raise awareness for the social and humanitarian relevance of films.

 

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Opposition leaders sign peace deal with Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych

President Yanukovych makes concessions, including a reduction in his powers and early elections, while parliament votes to free Tymoshenko

PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 February, 2014, 6:23pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 22 February, 2014, 3:52am

Reuters in Kiev

Viktor Yanukovych signs the deal to end the dispute. Photo: EPA

Ukraine's opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday, aiming to resolve a political crisis in which dozens have been killed and opening the way for an early presidential election this year.

In a fast-moving day that could significantly shift Ukraine's political destiny, the newly empowered parliament also fired the country's despised interior minister and voted to free Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former prime minister who has spent more than two years in jail for what supporters say are politically tainted charges.

Under pressure to quit from mass demonstrations in Kiev, Russian-backed Yanukovych made a series of concessions to his pro-European opponents.

"There are no steps that we should not take to restore peace in Ukraine," the president said. "I announce that I am initiating early elections."

He said Ukraine would revert to a previous constitution under which parliament had greater control over the make-up of the government, including the prime minister.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, one of the EU mediators, said the deal provided for a presidential election this year, although no date had been set. The vote had been due in March 2015.

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Within hours of the signing, the Ukrainian parliament voted to revert to a 2004 constitution that strips the head of state of some of his prerogatives.

The parliament then voted to fire the interior minister, Vitali Zakharchenko, who is widely despised and blamed for ordering police violence. The next order of business was Tymoshenko. Legislators voted 310-54 to decriminalise the count under which she was imprisoned, meaning she is no longer guilty of a criminal offence.

"Free Yuliya! Free Yuliya!" legislators chanted after the vote. It was not clear when she might be released.

Anti-government protesters man a barricade in Kiev. Photo: Reuters

With Ukraine caught in a geopolitical tug-of-war between Russia and the West, at least 77 people have been killed this week in the worst violence since the independent country emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Union in 1991.

There was a thunderous silence from the Kremlin, where President Vladimir Putin's spokesman declined comment.

Alexei Pushkov, the head of Russia's State Duma foreign affairs committee and a member of Putin's United Russia party, said the accord was positive if it ended the violence.

"But I don't think it resolves any of the core problems which Ukraine is facing: economics, ethnic relations and governability," he said.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said implementing the accord would be crucial and would be "very challenging".

Anti-government protesters remained encamped in Kiev's central Independence Square.

Many activists were suspicious.

"He gave the order to kill, so how can we live with him now until December?" said Vasily Zakharo, 40.

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Pentagon's phone calls to Ukrainian defence ministry go unanswered

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has been unable to get anyone on the phone at Ukraine's defence ministry over the past several days as violence flared and Kiev named a new head of the armed forces general staff, the Pentagon said.

Spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told a news briefing: "Here in the Pentagon, we've been trying to [connect with them] pretty diligently this whole week."

Kirby said he was also unaware of any successful military-to-military contacts between the United States and Ukraine, and acknowledged it is usually not so difficult for Hagel to get a foreign counterpart on the phone. Hagel and the Ukrainian defence minister spoke in December, Kirby noted. "I'd say it's pretty unusual," he said.

The Pentagon has been warning the Ukrainian military to stay out of the country's political crisis, calls echoed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

Kirby said reports from US embassy personnel in Kiev indicate that, so far, Ukraine's military is not involved in clashes between security forces and protesters.

Instead, the Ukrainian armed forces were being used to protect military facilities, including weapons and ammunition storage facilities, Kirby said. He renewed US calls to keep them out of the mix.

"[Hagel] urges the Ukrainian armed forces to continue to refrain from participating in the conflict, a conflict that can and should be resolved politically," Kirby said.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych appointed a new head of the armed forces general staff on Wednesday. His presidential decree gave no explanation for the change.

Reuters

 

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Ukraine’s Leader Flees Palace as Protesters Widen Control

By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER FEB. 22, 2014

Protesters at the residence of Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, which was seized and open to the public in Kiev, Ukraine, on Saturday. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

KIEV, Ukraine — Opposition leaders took control of the presidential palace outside Kiev on Saturday, as Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, fled the capital and Parliament, beginning to chart what appeared to be a new course for the former Soviet republic, called for elections to replace him.

Members of an opposition group from Lviv called the 31st Hundred — carrying clubs and some of them wearing masks — were in control of the entryways to the palace Saturday morning. They watched as thousands of citizens strolled through the grounds during the day, gazing in wonder at the mansions, zoo, golf course, enclosure for rare pheasants and other luxuries, set in a birch forest on a bluff soaring above the Dnepr River.

Protesters in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, where growing numbers of right-wing street groups have clashed with the police.Converts Join With Militants in Kiev ClashFEB. 20, 2014
“This commences a new life for Ukraine,” said Roman Dakus, a protester-turned-guard, who was wearing a ski helmet and carrying a length of pipe as he blocked a doorway. “This is only a start,” he added. “We need now to make a new structure and a new system, a foundation for our future, with rights for everybody, and we need to investigate who ordered the violence.”

Mr. Yanukovych appeared on television Saturday afternoon, saying that he had been forced to leave the capital because of a “coup,” and that he had not resigned, and did not plan to. He said he understood that people had suffered in recent days. “I feel pain for my country,” he said. “I feel responsibility. I will keep you informed of what we will do further, every day.”

He also said that he was traveling to the southeastern part of the country to talk to his supporters — a move that carried potentially ominous overtones, in that the southeast is the location, among other things, of the Crimea, the historically Russian section of the country where a Russian naval base is located.

But Parliament subsequently declared Mr. Yanukovych unable to carry out his duties and set a date of May 25 to elect his replacement.

An image taken from television provided by the Presidential Press Service showed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaking in Kharkiv on Saturday. Presidential Press Service, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A spokeswoman for the imprisoned opposition leader and former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, said Ms. Tymoshenko would be released within hours from the prison hospital in eastern Ukraine where she was being held.

Protesters said they had seen helicopters and cars leaving the palace compound Friday night and Saturday morning, and Mr. Yanukovych said that his car had been fired upon.

With political authority having collapsed, protesters claimed to have established control over Kiev. By Saturday morning they had secured key intersections of the city and the government district of the capital, which police officers had fled, leaving behind burned military trucks, mattresses and heaps of garbage at the positions they had occupied for months.

Yevgenia Tymoshenko, center, reacted as the Parliament voted to free her mother, Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, during a session in Kiev, Ukraine, on Saturday. Andrii Skakodub/Reuters

In Parliamentopposition members began laying the groundwork for a change in leadership, electing Oleksander Turchynov, an ally of Ms. Tymoshenko, as speaker.

Underscoring the volatility of the situation and the potential power vacuum, Oleg Tyagnibok, the leader of the nationalist Svoboda party, asked the country’s interior minister and “forces on the side of the people” to patrol the capital to prevent looting.

On Friday Mr. Yanukovych and opposition leaders, with the help of France, Germany, Poland and Russia, ,had reached an accord that reduced the power of Mr. Yanukovych, an ally of Moscow. But Russia then refused to sign the accord, stirring fears that Moscow might now work to undo the deal through economic and other pressures, as it did last year to subvert a proposed trade deal between Ukraine and the European Union. But American officials said that President Vladimir V. Puton told Mr. Obama in a telephone call on Friday that he would work toward resolving the crisis.

Oksana Solchanyk, center, her husband, Zinovij, left, and son Stepan mourned on Saturday in Lviv, Ukraine, over the body of their son and brother, Bohdan, 28, who was killed in Kiev during anti-government protests. Uriel Sinai for The New York Times

The developments cast a shadow over the hard-fought accord reached that also mandates early presidential elections by December, a swift return to a 2004 Constitution that sharply limited the president’s powers and the establishment within 10 days of a “government of national trust.”

In a series of votes that followed the accord and reflected Parliament’s determination to make the settlement work, lawmakers moved to free Ms. Tymoshenko; grant blanket amnesty to all antigovernment protesters; and provide financial aid to the hundreds of wounded and families of the dead.

Except for a series of loud explosions on Friday night and angry chants in the protest encampment, Kiev was generally quiet with the streets largely calm on Saturday. And the authorities, although previously divided about how to handle the crisis, seemed eager to avoid more confrontations.

Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesKiev: Triage in Crisis In the Ukrainian capital, triage centers have sprung up around Independence Square, where dozens of people have died in the fighting.

In Independence Square, the focal point of the protest movement, however, the mood was one of deep anger and determination, not triumph. “Get out criminal! Death to the criminal!” the crowd chanted, reaffirming what, after a week of bloody violence, has become a nonnegotiable demand for many protesters: the immediate departure of Mr. Yanukovych.

When Vitali Klitschko, one of three opposition leaderswho signed the deal to end the violence, spoke in its defense, people screamed “shame!” A coffin was then hauled on a stage in the square to remind Mr. Klitschko of the more than 70 people who died in violence on Thursday, the deadliest day of political mayhem in Ukraine since independence from the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.

The violence escalated the urgency of the crisis, which began with protests in late November after a decision by Mr. Yanukovych to spurn a trade and political deal with the European Union and tilt his nation toward Russia instead.

It was difficult to know how much of the fury voiced on Friday night in Independence Square was fiery bravado, a final cry of anger before the three-month-long protest movement winds down or the harbinger of yet more and possibly worse violence to come.

Vividly clear, however, was the wide gulf that had opened up between the opposition’s political leadership and a street movement that has radicalized and slipped far from the already tenuous control of politicians.

Mr. Klitschko was interrupted by an angry radical who did not give his name but said he was the leader of a group of fighters, known as a hundred.

Former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in Kiev in 2011. Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency

“We gave chances to politicians to become future ministers, presidents, but they don’t want to fulfill one condition — that the criminal go away!” he said, vowing to lead an armed attack if Mr. Yanukovych did not announce his resignation by 10 a.m. on Saturday. The crowd shouted: “Yes! Yes!”

Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of Right Sector, a coalition of hard-line nationalist groups, reacted defiantly to news of the settlement, drawing more cheers from the crowd.

“The agreements that were reached do not correspond to our aspirations,” he said. “Right Sector will not lay down arms. Right Sector will not lift the blockade of a single administrative building until our main demand is met — the resignation of Yanukovych.”

He added that he and his supporters were “ready to take responsibility for the further development of the revolution.” The crowd shouted: “Good! Good!”

By early afternoon, the presidential compound of brick paved pathways, beautifully landscaped in hedges, and all set in a birch forest on a bluff overlooking the Dnepr River, was filled with hundreds of people. Some outbuildings were open; men carrying ax handles and other clubs guarded the entrances to others, lest looting begin. Around noon gunshots or explosions rang out but it was unclear what had happened.

One member of the Lviv Hundred walked onto a gazebo decorated with plastic urns, removed his green military helmet and gazed out at the park and the river below.

Another pair in soot-smeared clothing and carrying baseball bats walked into an outbuilding apparently used for summer barbecues, and sat in chairs of plush blue and gold upholstery decorated in a floral print. They pulled large yellow drinking glasses from a cabinet and photographed one another on their cellphones as if saying toasts.

“We hoped for this but didn’t expect it,” said Roman Dakus, wearing a ski helmet and carrying a length of pipe, who guarding one doorway. He had been in Independence Square, known as Maidan, off and on for three months, he said. “It was very, very difficult to stay on the square in the cold at night,” he said. “But we warmed one another with our hearts and our souls.”

“This commences a new life for Ukraine,” he said, waving his pipe to take in the overrun presidential residence. “People really changed their mind-set because of these events. Before, people thought, ‘Nothing really depends on me.’ They preferred to say that and to think like that. But after this situation, they think differently. They believe in their struggle when they are all together.”

 

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so after Ukraine chose to stay close to Russia and not closer to Eurozone.............govt toppled by Zionists...........and former female PM back in power..................Ukraine under Zionist control once again...........