Decade In Review

By Kyiv Post.

Published Dec. 27, 2019. Updated Jan. 5 at 3:47 am

1. EuroMaidan Revolution participants celebrate New Year’s Eve on Dec. 31, 2013 on Independence Square. 2. People wave European Union flags in Kyiv on June 10, 2017, during a concert to celebrate the start of visa-free travel to Europe. 3. A Ukrainian soldier fires near Donetsk on Oct. 20, 2014. 4. President Volodymyr Zelensky holds the bulava, the Ukrainian symbol of power, during his inauguration on May 20, 2019. 5. Russian soldiers block the Ukrainian Navy near Simferopol in Crimea on March 5, 2014.

Photo by AFP, Kostyantyn Chernichkin, Mykhailo Markiv

Editor’s Note: The decade started with Viktor Yanukovych and ended with Volodymyr Zelensky. In between came revolution, war and the joy of visa-free travel to Europe. The Kyiv Post highlights the main events of the decade that is coming to an end on Dec. 31.

2019: A new political era dawns as TV comedian comes to power

2018: Russia imprisons sailors as murder of Kherson activist sparks outrage

2017: Visa-free travel, stalled reforms highlight events

2016: Yatsenyuk out, Trump in; banking woes mount; Sheremet murdered

2015: Ukraine defends Donetsk airport, loses Debaltseve

2014: Victorious revolution triggers Russia’s war

2013: Ukraine ignites in revolution to seize control of its future

2012: Euro 2012 provides bright spot in an otherwise very grim year

2011: Yanukovych’s kleptocracy is brazen, with no one to stop him

2010: Yanukovych takes revenge, sells out Ukraine’s interests