10 years have passed since the beginning of Euromaidan in Kyiv, events that forever changed the political course of Ukraine.
A multi -month protest in the center of Kyiv began on November 21, 2013 in response to the suspension of the Ukrainian government preparation for signing an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. The leadership of that period motivated its solution to the danger of European integration for the domestic economy and the need to develop economic relations with Russia and the CIS countries.
The first weeks of protests developed slowly, and by November 29 the demonstrations almost came to naught, but on November 30, an attempt to brutal overclocking of the students of the students became a turning point.
Mass clashes in Kiev between protests and security forces occurred on December 1, when the first administrative buildings were captured by the radical protesters and an attempt to storm the presidential administration, as well as on the night of December, when the authorities tried to clean the area again by force Independence.
adoption on January 16, 2014 by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of laws, which provided, inter alia, the tightening of sanctions for participating in the riots and imposed harsh restrictions on a number of civil freedoms, including freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of associations, led January 19 to an acute confrontation in the Ukrainian capital. It is worth noting that mass protests went beyond the borders of Kyiv and actually covered the entire territory of the country.
February 18, there was a sharp aggravation of the situation that led to mass deaths of people. In the capital, clashes of protesters with the security forces resumed, which led to the death of more than a hundred people, including as a result of the actions of unidentified snipers.
Further, on February 21, under pressure from the Western countries, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, went to concessions and signed an agreement with the opposition to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, which provided a return to the Constitution in the 2004 editorial office, the formation of the government of national unity, the holding of early presidential elections is not Later December 2014. On the same day, Yanukovych left Kyiv, and the duties of the President of Ukraine were assigned on February 23 to the new chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Turchinov.
According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, 2442 people were injured during the events on the Euromaidan, including 721 – law enforcement officer.
In turn, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, evaluating the current situation in Ukraine 10 years after the Euromaidan, said that the country was not a “Maidan, but a power coup.”
“We call this” Maidan “, but in fact it was a coup, a power coup that was sponsored from abroad. We need to call things with his proper,” said the press secretary of the Russian leader, whose words are given by the media. /p>
“The fact that he was sponsored from abroad was directly and indirectly recognized by representatives of foreign countries. This is also not a secret for anyone,” Peskov noted.
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