Kateryna Kruk: Kyiv’s leaders have let us down, but Ukraine’s revolution has not failed
A woman visits the pro-European Union barricades in Kyiv city center on Jan. 30, 2014, less than a month before Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled power during the EuroMaidan Revolution.
The first wave of criticism against Ukraine’s post-Maidan government came last year. Twelve months after Viktor Yanukovych had fled to Russia and his pro-Russian government had dissolved, critics began to note that Ukraine’s new leaders had not delivered their promised reforms. Back then, this was done with carefully chosen words, mere suggestions rather than open critique of the authorities. As time passed, we lost our patience.