February 2019 marks five years since the bloodiest days of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine. A simple demonstration against then president Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian decisions turned into a massive uprising against the entire regime. On Feb. 18, 2014 the special riot police force Berkut began a forceful dispersion of the protest – things ended in bloodshed and casualties. These days, Berkut officers (whose division was officially dissolved in 2014 but many now serve in the special regiment of Ukraine’s national police) are considered responsible for the killings of around 100 demonstrators, known as “the Heavenly Hundred” who were shot and tortured to death.
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A man firing candles at the memorial for EuroMaidan activists or 'Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred', who were killed during anti-government protests in 2014, not far from Independence Square in Kyiv on Feb. 18, 2019.
