Seven years ago, on Feb. 18-21, 2014, dozens of protesters were killed in the center of Kyiv during the most intense confrontation of the EuroMaidan Revolution. After that, then-President Viktor Yanukovych, whose resignation the protesters demanded, fled Ukraine for Russia. Simultaneously, a stealthy Russian occupation of Crimea was ongoing; shortly thereafter, Russia fanned the flames of war in Donbas.
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Olena Makarenko: How Ukraine is preserving the memory of EuroMaidan Revolution
A woman prays near the memorial to the Heavenly Hundred during a ceremony to commemorate people killed in the EuroMaidan Revolution in Kyiv on Feb. 18, 2021.
