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Jan 23, 2014 - Mar 3, 2014 
What is really happening 
in Ukraine 
-15ºC (5ºF)
Prerequisites of the Conflict 2 
Nov 23-29, 
2013 
President Yanukovich refuses 
to sign the EU association. 
Massive peaceful protests arise all 
over Ukraine demanding to sign 
the association. 
Nov 30, 2013 “Berkut” units brutally 
disperse protesters at night 
beating women and students. 
Huge protests in Kyiv. People 
coming from all over Ukraine. 
People demand punishment of 
responsible for brutal actions. 
Dec 8, 2013 Government doesn’t react. 
President behaves like 
nothing happens. 
“March of million”. About a million 
protesters in Kyiv, thousands in 
other cities. People demand 
dismissal of the government.
Prerequisites of the Conflict 3 
Dec 2013 No charges or dismissals by 
the Regime. Instead, 
protesters are arrested, jailed 
awaiting trial. 
Protesters occupy Kyiv 
administration building, organise 
protests near the homes of key 
government officials. 
Jan 16, 2014 20 anti-democratic, 
unconstitutional laws passed 
against Parliamentary voting 
procedures. 
Protesting: 15 years in prison. 
Wearing a helmet: beating by 
Police. 
Protests increase. Radicalized 
protesters equipped with body 
protection, sticks and petrol 
bombs organise to occupy the 
Grushevs’kogo Street protected 
by “Berkut” units. 
tension starts to grow even further
Prerequisites of the Conflict 
The regime ignores peaceful protests of Euromaidan, 
escalates conflict to beatings, arrests of peaceful people 
for wearing helmets, carrying wood, other “crimes”. 
European association is no longer an issue, 
as the Regime begins to attack its own people. 
Violence escalates. 
4
The Regime: Violence / Enforcement 
Domestic Police Riot Troops: Berkut First Team 
Prison guards, seasoned troops, special forces. 
Protect government representatives with shields, batons, 
tear gas, stun grenades, rifles. 
Extremely violent, shoot-to-kill, beat skulls and ribs with 
batons, shoot-journalists-on-site. 
7 activists/journalists dead nearly 100 missing 
Domestic Police Riot Troops: Berkut Draftees 
Young, mostly untrained, obligatory-service troops who 
are placed in the front lines to take the bulk of any 
violence, while First Team awaits opportunity to attack. 
High descension and fear of the government. 
Have limited information about reason of the protests. 
5
The Regime: Violence / Enforcement 
Hired Enforcers: “Titushky” 
Paid in cash, enlisted and controlled by government 
initiative through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 
Additional muscle when there is a need to keep 
government activities “out of uniform”. 
Search-and-destroy teams in the streets against activists 
and journalists. Crash shops, destroy property. 
“Titushky” mimic protesters to discredit real activists and intimidate people, 
preventing them from joining the protests. 
1 000 - 1 400 men with hammers, iron balls and narcotics regularly witnessed 
as organised groups in the centre of Kyiv and other cities. 
Numerous evidences of close cooperation with Berkut (never arrested when 
committing illegal actions). 
6
The Regime: The Informational War 
TV / Press (Ukraine and Russia) 
Press (International) 
An informational vacuum exists within Ukraine and in 
neighbouring Russia. Ukrainian state channels, non-state 
channels purchased/captured by the “Family”. Russian 
channels control the most of the airways. Only two major 
newspapers remain independent. Free internet is vital. 
The western press continues to see the protests in cold 
war terms: “Euro-centric” or fundamentally based on 
“ethnic/language” splitting in Ukraine. 
Lack of good Ukraine-based journalism in English. Heavy 
lobbying campaigns in Europe and Washington assist in 
this misunderstanding. 
7
The People: Activist 8 
“Euromaidan” + “Radical Maidan” 
“AutoMaidan” 
Believe that control of locations and threat of force back 
are key factors to maintain pressure on the regime. Seek 
the cancellation of anti-constitutional laws, full dismissal of 
Yanukovych and his government. 
Use helmets, pans (to protect heads), wooden sticks, 
stones, petrol bombs, fireworks. + songs, poetry, speech. 
Self-organised car owners who can react fast on illegal 
actions from the government side. 
Transport medicine, people, food to the protesters. 
Organise protests outside Kyiv, chase “titushky”, protect 
people in hospitals from kidnapping by “Berkut”.
The People: Media/Medical 9 
Mass Media 
Field Medicine 
HromadskeTV, SpilnoTV, 5-th Channel, Chesno, 
Euromaidan(fb), Automaidan(fb), RadicalMaidan(fb), … 
Journalists are being chased and shot on purpose, forcing 
them to remove ID’s so as not to be noticed by Berkut. 
1 journalist tortured to death. 
Volunteers helping hundreds of injured protesters with 
wounds from rifle shots, batons, extreme cold. 
Are constantly under aimed attacks from “Berkut”. 
Use donated medicines from regular people. 
Work mainly in buildings to protect from “Berkut”.
The Regime: Tactics 
Intimidation. Increase pressure, keep people scared, depress scale of protests: 
• Violence: Titushky for random/pointed beating of people 
• Fear: SMS broadcast on Maidan informing people that they are registered as 
criminal protesters and are being monitored (at least 2 cellular providers 
sent such messages) 
• Kidnapping/torturing of injured 
people from hospitals 
DEAD 
• Military forces being moved 
to Kyiv from other regions 
Ihor Lutsenko 
Kidnapped, tortured, 
• Suspected use of foreign forces 
thrown out in a field 
• Arresting people who buy/transport stuff commonly used by protesters (e.g. 
tires, wood, large amounts of medicine, clothes) 
Yurij Verbytskyj 
Kidnapped, tortured, 
found in the same field 
10
The Regime: Tactics 11 
Liquidate as many protesters as possible: 
• Field medicine workers being shot on purpose 
• Police searches for protesters in hospital based on the injury types 
• Injured protesters must be sent to private clinics 
to avoid torturing by Berkut 
• Police attach nails and stones to stun grenades 
• Police aiming for heads with shotguns 
and batons, people losing eyes 
• Captured protesters are stripped, 
tortured, humiliated and taken to 
unknown places, afterwards found 
naked in fields and forests, 
Caution! 
sometimes dead 
Brutal violence!
The Regime: Tactics 12 
Limit documentation and distribution of materials about real events in Ukraine 
• Journalists are being shot on purpose (1+ dead) 
• Cameras and other equipment destroyed on sight 
• Users being randomly disconnected from internet and cellular networks 
• Phones are withdrawn from all local police units for weeks. They don’t know 
why people are protesting. Are threatened by tribunal for disobedience 
Deactivate major activists and leaders of protests (15+ activists can’t be found) 
IHOR 
LUTSENKO 
YURIY 
VERBYTS’KYJ 
Euromaidan activist 
Tortured. In hospital. 
Euromaidan activist 
Tortured. Dead. 
DMYTRO 
BULATOV 
Automaidan leader 
Beaten. Unknown. 
MYHAJLO 
ZHYZNEVS’KYJ 
Euromaidan guard 
Shot dead by a sniper.
The People: Strategy 13 
Radical Maidan holds Berkut under pressure on Grushevs’kogo Str. 
Automaidan activists patrol the city: 
Deactivating, disarming and documenting “titushky” gangs 
Blocking buses with police units from entering the city centre 
Transport injured people to hospitals 
Maximize effectiveness of donations and volunteers: 
Legal advocacy for the illegally arrested 
Trained medical personnel giving first aid to victims of police attacks 
Food, clothing, blankets, fuel and various gear distributed to activists 
All over Ukraine, blocking municipal buildings, military bases, police buses 
Young military students beg for blockades, as they are being forced to go to 
Kyiv and fight)
Status (night Jan 23, 2014) 14 
5 out of 25 Local State Administrations occupied by the People 
Interior troops forces in 4 cities resign (refusing to perform illegal actions) 
Football fans of three clubs joined up with protesters in Kyiv and Donetsk 
Result of violent Police actions: 
• 150+ police units injured (light injuries of head/hands from stones and fire) 
• 1500+ people injured (crushed skulls, lost eyes, broken limbs, contusion) 
• 4 people killed (2 shot, 1 thrown from a pillar, 1 tortured to death) 
• 15+ people detained with no explanations, locations remain unknown 
• 70+ journalists injured from precise attacks on people with cameras 
• 30+ medical workers injured 
Brutal and cynical human rights violations
Status (afternoon Jan 25, 2014) 15 
Meetings all over the world supporting protests in Ukraine: 
Germany, France, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, USA, … 
Russian Federation and Belarus – the only countries where 
meetings supporting Euromaidan are dispersed by the police. 
Meeting in Moscow 
All major Russian mass media massively spread highly biased information 
emphasising honourable work of “Berkut” and Nazi orientation of activists. 
People being beaten and detained by police in public places, trains, shops, 
when buying wood, medicine and other things used by protesters, wearing 
symbolic ribbons with Ukrainian and European flags, Euromaidan badges… 
“Berkut” officers receive bonuses for each hour of standing on the 
Grushevskogo Str.. Rumors of raises abound. 
Ministry of Internal Affairs reports ~100 of “Berkut” units with frostbitten feet, 
as they are forced to stand for up to 12 hours in the streets.
Status (afternoon Jan 25, 2014) 16 
10 out of 25 Local State Administrations occupied by 
protesters. Protests arising in eastern regions. 
15 activists of Automaidan beaten and 
imprisoned without hospitalisation despite heavy 
injuries from Berkut attacks. Hundreds of 
protesters detained and imprisoned. 
People 
Seizure attempts 
Government 
Massive protests 
Ministry of Internal Affairs blames 
Protests supported by fans of football clubs 
Euromaidan in killing 1 and detaining 2 policemen. Protesters deny. 
+1 dead protester: metal bullet in lungs, bullet in shoulder, amputated arm, death. 
Automaidan offers 10 000 UAH reward for help in finding the team leader 
Dmytro Bulatov (Jan 22, 2014 disappeared, no more information). 
250+ armed military units detected hidden in the International Convention 
Center near the Euromaidan peaceful demonstration.
Status (afternoon Jan 26, 2014) 17 
Massive protests arise on the east and south 
Armed military units leave International Convention 
Center under pressure by protesters, leave supplies 
of canned food and vodka. 
Yanukovych proposed ruling positions in 
People’s Council 
legitimised 
the government to 2 Opposition leaders. 
People 
Seizure attempts 
Government Massive protests 
People not satisfied, Opposition refuses. 
Protests 
Protests supporting 
supported by fans 
the ruling party 
Euromaidan wants dismissal of the president 
of football clubs 
as the main responsible for deaths, tortures and thousands of victims. 
“Titushki” under protection of the police found shooting peaceful 
demonstrators with traumatic weapons in Dnipropetrovsk. 
Leading businessmen Victor Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov break with 
Yanukovych and publicly call for stopping the use of brutal force.
Status (evening Jan 26, 2014) 18 
The Ukrainian protests of 2013 and 2014: 
Were triggered by Yanukovych’s about-face on a European trajectory. 
Became massive due to the Regime’s brutal crack down on peaceful protesters, 
and their refusal to hold anyone accountable. 
Became violent due to the illegal passing of anti-constitutional laws against 
public protest and the Regime’s tactics of arresting, beating, kidnapping, 
torturing and murdering of protesters, journalists and medics. 
Will continue to grow due to the wide recognition of the Regime’s corruption, 
theft, money laundering, cronyism, censorship, and its singular goal to maintain 
the extreme wealth that it has gained over the last 3 years. 
Will stop only with a return of justice, human rights, rule of the law of Ukraine. 
Will have lasting, serious consequences that Ukrainians will have to overcome.
Status (morning Jan 27, 2014) 19 
Level of aggressiveness of the riot police rises. Demonstrators in 5 cities are 
violently beaten and arrested without hospitalisation. 
“Titushky” provoke protesters for aggression, hide behind 
the police, then protesters are being beaten and arrested. 
“Titushky” burn cars of the protesters. Police arrests the 
owners who try to protect the cars. 
In Dnipropetrovsk 
World heavy-weight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko 
posts a video asking western countries to help Ukraine. 
Numerous money-exchange centres reporting about 
people with a clear Russian accent massively exchanging 
RUB→UAH (Possible Russian police coming for provocations?) 
Journalists are asked to watch closely the airports for possible 
Russian police coming to Ukraine, changing into Ukrainian uniform. 
Police threatens the journalist 
W. Klitschko
Status (morning Jan 27, 2014) 20 
Ministry of Internal Affairs refuses to start investigations about people shot 
during the protests on the basis of “official claims to police about the deaths”. 
People can’t make official claims about killed victims because they are 
immediately arrested. Hundreds of people remain missing all over Ukraine. 
Morgues in Kyiv report dozens of unidentified dead bodies being transported by 
police without any explanation. 
Government continues threatening people with calling a state of emergency. 
Killed people are labeled as “extremists” by the government. 
The latest fatality, Roman Senyk, was shot from the large height according to the 
doctors’ examinations (presumably by a sniper). 
2 gangs of “Titushky” were fighting each other to make the impression of the 
protesters beating civilians (according to protesters and witnesses in Donetsk).
Status (evening Jan 27, 2014) 21 
+2 dead bodies in Kyiv found in the morning 
1 hanged on the Christmas tree near the Euromaidan 
1 tortured, with tied hands (in the district where 15 
members of Automaidan are being imprisoned) 
POLICE 
“TITUSHKO” 
PROTESTER 
Clear evidence of the police 
cooperating with “titushky”? 
Control over Local States 
People’s Council legitimised 
People 
Government 
Massive protests 
Seizure attempts 
Protests 
supporting the 
ruling party 
Protection gangs of the 
ruling party created 
Ruling party fraction 
broken up 
Police+”titushky” beating 
unarmed people 
Control of ruling 
party restored 
Ruling party 
forbidden 
Party “Swoboda” 
forbidden
Status (evening Jan 27, 2014) 22 
2004 Eurovision contest winner Ruslana reports numerous threats to kill her. 
Police department in Rivne city supports protesters and asks for help due to 
numerous attacks on women by pro-government gangs (“titushky”). 
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Status (evening Jan 28, 2014) 23 
Protesters suspend waiting for the results of negotiations between the 
government and opposition (adopting laws by the parliament). 
Parliament dismisses 9 laws from Jan 16, 2014. 4 of these are adopted again. 
While the government calls for compromises: 
People continue to disappear from hospitals/streets all over Ukraine 
People participating in demonstrations being arrested for 2 months 
Other 5 (10 in total) cars belonging to Automaidan activists burnt 
Commandants of Kyiv houses report about Police 
looking for people seen with ammunition, helmets, coming home late 
systematically, distributing Euromaidan agitation brochures 
noting names, address and telephone numbers of such people 
noting license plates of cars having Ukraine/EU symbolics on it
Status (evening Jan 28, 2014) 24 
New prime minister – Arbuzov, former Head of NBU, no substantive change. 
Austrian bank Hypo Vorarlberg confirms that Kluyev brothers lied in the 
registration documents not mentioning PEP status (illegal in Austria). 
Canada restricts entry for key figures of the Ukrainian government. 
Majority of journalists and public figures acknowledge existence of “squadrons 
of death” which kidnap/torture/kill anti-government activists. 
Owners of 3 large shopping centres in Dnipropetrovsk leave Ukraine due to 
threats and persecution by the government after showing 5 Kanal news on the 
advertisement monitors at night. 
Activists start gathering information about missing people to initiate 
investigation since police arrests everybody with claims about disappeared people. 
Numerous cases of people being arrested when buying wood, gas, tires, etc.
Status (evening Jan 29, 2014) 25 
Delegations from EU and US arrive to Ukraine to spectate the voting 
procedures by Parliament, help to avoid violence. 
Parliament adopts a law about amnesty of all imprisoned protesters, again with 
violation of voting procedures. Most deputies refused to adopt the law until 
Yanukovych urgently arrived with threats. Only few saw the actual text of the law. 
Few Local Administrations being released by protesters. 
Temperature goes down to -20ºC (-4ºF). 
EU and US delegation members are not satisfied by the steps made by the 
government. Suspect that Yanukovych tries to do as little as possible to gain 
sympathy of the West to avoid sanctions. 
People don’t want to “bargain” with Yanukovych and demand satisfaction of their 
requirements prior to negotiation about compromises.
Status (afternoon Jan 30, 2014) 26 
Yanukovych doesn’t sign the law about amnesty of imprisoned protesters. 
Yanukovych is officially on sick leave. Due to respiration disease. 
Minister of Internal Affairs (Vitaliy Zakharchenko) reports about death of the 
police captain in the Grushevs’kogo Str. from heart attack. Claims protester’s 
pressure as a cause. People blame long working hours at low temperature. 
+20 cars of Euromaidan participants burnt during the night. 
Volunteer medical workers imprisoned. 
Incriminating organisation of civil disorders. 
Several owners of used tires shops arrested 
without any investigation/testimony. One of the 
arrested businessmen is from Holland. 
“Titushky“ break a camera in front of the police. Police + “titushky” in cooperation
Status (night Jan 30, 2014) 27 
Leader of Automaidan Dmytro Bulatov found (missing since Jan 22, 2014). 
Thrown out in a village (area where 2 other tortured victims were found). 
Tortured extremely violently: 
multiple cuts on face, part of ear cut off 
was crucified (holes in hands), broken limbs 
not fed for last 3 days 
Same scenario as with 2 previous victims. 
Tortured to tell who organises protests, who 
pays to people. 
No investigation started on any case of 
kidnapping/torturing (since Jan 20, 2014). 
Dmytro Bulatov 
Attackers have Russian accent. Convinced that protests are sponsored by USA.
Status (evening Jan 31, 2014) 28 
Police arrives to the private clinic to arrest Dmytro Bulatov (the Automaidan 
leader) despite critical state of health. Opposition deputies and activists urgently 
arrive to stop the police from taking him away. 
Many proofs emerge showing that first rows of riot 
police troops consist of young cadets. Always denied 
by chiefs of riot police. 
Dmytro Bulatov in the hospital 
Mothers of cadets arrive to Kyiv with demonstrations. 
Asking to disobey illegal orders against the People. 
Mother of one of the cadets reports about awful working 
conditions of the cadets. Continuously under pressure of 
anti-Euromaidan propaganda. Used as human shields. 
Olga Patlatenko 
Protests near the Deutsche Bank in the Wall Street (New York) calling for 
stopping serving the UBD Bank (business of the president’s son)
Status (evening Feb 2, 2014) 29 
Former prime minister Azarov leaves Ukraine on a 
private plane. Joins his son in Viena, Austria. 
Austrian FORTMAT.AT publishes the complete money 
laundering scheme used by Yanukovych, Azarov, Kluyev 
in Austria. Demonstrations arise near the Azarov’s house. 
Ukraine – one of the main topics at Munich Security Conference. 
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara mentions 
“just a scratch” on the cheek of Dmytro Bulatov. 
Cynically calls the protesters in Ukraine as “extremists”. 
+4 cars burnt in Kyiv. Activists ask people to park cars 
near buildings with surveillance. Remove license plates 
at night to prevent identification of protesters’ cars and potential damage. 
Organisation of civil disorders incriminated to Dmytro Bulatov. 
Demonstration in Austria 
Munich Security Conference
Status (night Feb 3, 2014) 30 
President Yanukovych returns from the sick leave right after the EU delegation 
leaves Ukraine. Plans to visit Sochi Olympic Games in Russian Federation. 
USA and EU are working on plan of financial support for Ukraine. 
Dmytro Bulatov is transported to Riga - Vilnus for intensive treatment. 
Chesno.org reports about 136 injured journalists. 
Military journalists claim: at war it’s even safer. 
1739 victims of repression in 3 months of protests. 
People from Ministry of Internal Affairs unofficially tell 
about Russian Special Forces in Ukraine from Jan 20, 2014. 
Numerous metal bullets found on the area of clashes with riot 
police. Few extracted from dead bodies. Police always claimed 
only rubber bullets being used.
Status (evening Feb 4, 2014) 31 
Euromaidan guards detained 2 riot police officers + 1 interior troops soldier in 
civilian clothes spying the area. Returned to the commander. 
Euromaidan activist (Sissel K. Andersen) from Denmark disappeared. 
Demonstrations near the Akhmetov’s (Ukrainian 
richest man) residence in London. 
Ukrainian customs house blocks humanitarian relief for 
Euromaidan from Poland. 
Demonstration in London 
New evidence of Police using Molotov cocktails. 
2 members of Klitschko’s “Udar” party assassinated. 
Oleg Garyaga: 3 stab wounds from civilians. 
Vitaliy Serpokrylov: house ransacked by 20 policemen. 
Russian oppositional TV channel banned by most Russian 
networks presumably due to showing the real Euromaidan. 
Molotov & Berkut
Status (evening Feb 6, 2014) 32 
Police stops civilian cars approaching Kyiv, confiscates 
wood as potential help to Euromaidan. Similar wood 
brought to Police and pro-government gangs 3 days later. 
A gang of teenagers destroyed 2 restaurants in Kyiv 
mimicking Euromaidan protesters. Wearing sneakers: 
typical for pro-government gangs. Not used by Euromaidan. 
Explosive put in a package marked “Medicine” for Euromaidan detonated in 
headquarters building. Identical package identified in another building. 
2 victims of the explosion: 
Roman Dzivinskyj, 20 years, amputated left hand; 
Nazar Derzhylo , 15 years old, burnt eyes; 
Euromaidan commandant Andriy Parubiy suspects government’s provocation: 
numerous attempts of police to oust people with fictitious reports about bomb in 
the building.
Status (night Feb 8, 2014) 33 
Protest near the Ukraine embassy in Washington DC 
on arrival of Ukrainian delegation. 
Yanukovych is one of the few presidents not shown in 
the live opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 
Only Russian TV showed Ukrainian president. 
Protest in Washington DC 
Sochi. 4 Ukrainian Olympic Games sportsmen registered by 
organisers as born in Russia instead of Ukraine (mistake?) 
Additional evidences of riot police using forbidden 
weapons against protesters showing up. 
Dmytro Bulatov gives a press conference in Vilnus. 
Euromaidan guards stop the pro-government gang 
with intention to dismount the barricades. 
Court of Cherkasy forbids any protests due to infection. Photos of Bulatov’s injuries
Status (evening Feb 10, 2014) 34 
Gang of armed activists “For clean Kyiv” with russian 
symbolic ribbons of Saint George ( ) come to Kyiv 
centre to disassemble the barricades. Met by hundreds 
of smiling Euromaidan guards, leave the area. 
Euromaidan guards find an abandoned room near the 
Maidan with lots of computers and video-records of 
Euromaidan activists. Have signs of possible explosives 
preparation. The building belongs to the “Graal” company 
connected to the Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk. 
Solidarity demonstration in the Maidan to support the 
Russian TV channel “Dozhd” (Rain) — removed from Russian TV networks for 
showing the Euromaidan objectively. 
Parliament continues to ignore People’s demand to adopt the old version of 
Constitution 2004 limiting the president’s credentials. 
Protection of barricades 
Support of the “Dozhd” TV
Status (evening Feb 12, 2014) 35 
Monitors in public transport of Crimea start showing advertisements accusing 
opposition and Euromaidan leaders of extremism and betrayal. Politicians asking 
Russian Federation for military support in Crimea. 
Ukrainian hryvnya devaluated by 20% already. 
Auto of a Euromaidan activist in Rivne burnt at night. 
Ruling Party of Regions fraction in Lviv self-dismissed. 
Journalist investigation proves that police lets rich people 
inside the prohibited zone to the luxury boutique. 
Government doesn’t follow the adopted amnesty law, 
releasing innocent protesters only under house arrest with 
15-year imprisonment threat. 
Youtube blocks the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to 
overwhelming complaints on publication of misleading and abusing information. 
Surveillance video of burning 
Luxury boutique investigation
Status (night Feb 14, 2014) 36 
Official report of the court about a sniper working on the Grushevs’kogo Str. 
NAFTOGAS limits gas supply to 11 regions that have active protests on the 
west and centre. Largest debts in eastern regions. 
Strike of the trolleybus drivers in Luhans’k due to no 
salary for over 4 months. 
Billboards with anti-Euromaidan propaganda in Crimea. 
EU representative Jeffrey Luebbe beaten in Simferopol (Crimea) 
for expressing support of the Euromaidan. 
Euromaidan and Automaidan activist Serhiy Synenko burnt in 
his car in Zaporizhghya. 
Football fans of numerous Ukrainian clubs announce temporary peace to unite 
for support of Euromaidan.
Status (evening Feb 16, 2014) 37 
Ministry of Internal Affairs denies participation of Berkut 
officers in brutal destroying of civilian vehicles. 
Video clearly refutes this statement. 
Trainers of multiple schools of martial arts support 
Euromaidan. Organise free trainings for the protesters. 
Demonstration of Automaidan in Chicago. 
Demonstration supporting Euromaidan in St. Petersburg. 
Tatars community in Crimea express readiness to resist 
separatist pro-Russian movements in the region. 
Pro-government news channel Podrobnosti posts 
messages in the official Twitter channel: “We are the most 
deceitful news” and “D.V. Firtash, sorry, you don’t have 
enough money on the account to continue lying in this blog” 
Berkut crashing civilian car 
Automaidan in Chicago
Summary of the protests 38 
7 people dead 1 policeman dead 
? ? ? 
??.??.19?? – 22-25.01.2014 
? 
Dozens reported missing + Morgues report unidentified bodies = Dead? 
Why do not people stop the protests… What do people call EU and US for… 
Price of democracy People of Ukraine ask the world for support
Status (afternoon Feb 18, 2014) 39 
Ministry of Internal Affairs removes accusation from 
several activists. 
Young girls painted military trucks used by security 
forces as barricades. 
Protestors block the building of Parliament demanding 
satisfaction of the requirements of Euromaidan. 
Mobilisation of medicine personnel announced in the 
centre of Kyiv. 
Snipers captured in the centre of Kyiv. 
Painted military trucks 
Blocking of the Parliament 
Snipers in Kyiv 
Witnesses report about snipers shooting in a protester and 
then shooting in a security force officer causing a start of the 
WAR IN UKRAINE
Status (evening Feb 18, 2014) 40 
Police starts an attack of the protestors using batons, 
shotguns. Snipers shooting people from the roofs. 
Security forces burn 1-st and 9-th floor of the field 
hospital building with doctors and injured people inside. 
People being killed by precise shots in head and neck. 
Security forces using automatic guns including AK-47. 
People all over Ukraine assaulting security forces, police 
buildings. In Kmelnytskyj woman shot from AK-47. 
People burn the military truck to limit visibility for snipers. 
Protestors coming to Kyiv to give support. Police blocks 
all entrances to Kyiv. Underground blocked. 
Security forces in few cities support protestors. 
Snipers on the roof 
Burning field hospital 
Battle in the Instytutska Str.
Status (evening Feb 19, 2014) 41 
20+ people killed. 600+ people injured. Electricity switched off in the centre. 
Many people trapped in the field hospital building due to fallen floors, that were 
burnt by security forces. People burned alive. 
People block buses with security forces/payed thugs on roads all over Ukraine. 
Ukrainian skier Bohdana Matsyots’ka left Sochi Olympic Games to protest 
against the Ukrainian government. 
After meeting with Yanukovych Klitschko claims that the president doesn’t 
adequately treat the situation demanding that people go home. 
Battles in the centre of Kyiv suspended while snipers continue shooting people 
and new forces coming to Kyiv. 
Yanukovych changes the head of military forces of Ukraine to Yuriy Il’yin who 
would execute his orders to act against people.
Status (afternoon Feb 20, 2014) 42 
30 000+ people in the Independence Square in Kyiv 
preparing the barricades waiting for the new assault. 
Dozens of police units become hostages of protestors. 
Dozens on deaths every hour from sniper attacks on 
unarmed people with only helmets/shields/sticks. 
People block trains with security forces coming to Kyiv. 
Underground starts working. 
Deputies massively leaving Kyiv through the VIP terminal 
in Zhulyany airport with large bags full of money. 
Minister of Internal Affairs asks people to leave the area. 
Announces that security forces are officially allowed to 
use deadly weapons after 70+ shot dead already. 
Independence Square 
Cruel sniper attacks 
Snipers/automatic guns
Status (evening Feb 20, 2014) 43 
People building the wall in the Independence Square using 
bricks from sidewalks. 
People bringing tons of food to help those in the battle. 
Deputies of the Party of Regions start leaving it. 
Building the wall 
~700 of “titushky” arrive to fight against people. 
USA applies sanctions against some Ukrainian politicians. 
New majority formed in the Ukrainian Parliament voting 
for stopping the fire by all security forces, returning them 
Blocking of trains 
to the places of permanent dislocation. 
Security forces started to throw grenades and shoot more intensively after the 
adoption of the resolutions. 
“Titusuhki” armed with guns, shooting people, crash shops, ambulances.
Status (evening Feb 21, 2014) 44 
Yanukovych signs the peaceful agreement with the opposition. Acknowledged by 
European delegation. Russia doesn’t sign. 
Group of police units armed with automatic guns enter the Parliament. Deputies 
lead them out. Polish delegate claims that Yanukovych was ready to use army for 
cleaning up the centre of Kyiv. 
All the security forces urgently leave Kyiv very fast, leaving lots of ammunition. 
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Vitaliy Zakharchenko left 
to Belorussia. Many deputies left to eastern Ukraine, Russia. 
Requiem for the victims held in the Independence Square. 
Requiem in Kyiv 
People are suspicious about the opposition leaders. Are absolutely not satisfied 
by the agreement with Yanukovych. Demand dismissal and punishment of 
Yanukovych, all people responsible for beating and killing people in last 3 months. 
The governor of Kharkiv plans a meeting of deputies of eastern regions.
Status (afternoon Feb 22, 2014) 45 
The guards of the Maidan with journalists arrive to the 
president’s residence left empty without any security. 
Looks like people were escaping quickly. 
Neighbours saw dozens of buses being stacked with 
stuff and leaving the residence in a hurry. 
The house is empty. Many luxury leftovers (icons, gold 
coins, old paintings, antique vases) in the garage. 
Look like it didn’t fit in the bus. 
Multiple heaps of burned papers, documents. Some 
thrown out in the lake. Saved documents show the 
receipts of hundred million dollar cash transfers. 
Lots of guns, automatic guns, rifles, bullets found on the 
bottom of the lake. 
Leftovers in the residence 
Documents in the residence 
Weapons in the residence
Status (evening Feb 22, 2014) 46 
Julia Tymoshenko released from the prison. Urgently 
transported to the Euromaidan stage in Kyiv. 
Tymoshenko delivered a prepared speech in front of 
protestors. Reported about the plan to immediately 
Tymoshenko released 
return to politics and “to protect” the whole Ukraine. 
Majority of people are offended, do not believe her, considering all the lies and 
crimes she committed while being in politics. 
People don’t want to see Tymoshenko in politics. Express great complaints about 
actions of the new government. In particular – giving priority to release of 
Tymoshenko instead of actual releasing all the illegally arrested activists, 
investigation of all the deaths, punishment of people responsible for ~100 deaths. 
Russian politicians express suspicious willingness to work with Tymoshenko, 
unlike they were before, when opposition was represented by other people.
Status (evening Feb 23, 2014) 47 
Yanukovych makes an announcement denying to resign, 
calling protestors extremists, calling for stopping the 
separatist actions. Nobody can find the president. 
Documents with detailed descriptions of plans of the 
Autopark of Yanukovych 
attacks, including special forces, snipers made public. 
People find wide animals on the territory of the president’s 
residence used for hunting, garage full of luxury cars. 
Heads of the Kharkiv, who threatened protestors with 
cruel reprisal, return to the city after escaping the day 
before. Look very confident. 
Demonstration in Kerch 
Politicians and pro-Russian public organisation in Crimea initiate separatist 
meetings with Russian flags. Meetings against separation of Crimea form as well. 
Pro-Russian demonstrants destroy Ukrainian flags in several cities.
Status (evening Feb 24, 2014) 48 
Video appears demonstrating police units armed with 
automatic guns, sniper rifles, shooting people. 
The new Minister of Internal Affairs, Avakov reports that 
Yanukovych can’t be found. Part of his guards left him. Was 
trying to leave Ukraine on the airplane but the military 
plane was flying around and not letting him. 
According to the TV channel ATR, Yanukovych is hiding in 
the Russian military base in Sevastopol, Crimea. 
The residence of the attorney general’s house visited 
by activists shows the same level of crazy luxury. 
4 deputies of the Russian Parliament arrive to Simpferopol. 
Witnesses report about Russian military cars in Crimea. 
People not satisfied by cheating of the new government. 
Armed security forces 
Residence of the attorney 
Russian deputies
Status (evening Feb 25, 2014) 49 
Journalists captured many military cars with Russian 
license plates entering the Russian sanatorium in Yalta. 
Euromaidan guards found 2 “titushky”. They told that: 
• were paid 400 hryvnias (~50 USD) 
Russian army in Yalta 
• had to participate in pro-government demonstrations 
• asked to take photos of people supporting Euromaidan 
• one cried, told that he was cheated and used 
People from Lviv (western Ukraine) announce an action: 
Action of solidarity 
will speak Russian to support people from the eastern Ukraine 
People from Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) announce that they will speak Ukrainian 
to show solidarity with people from western and central Ukraine. 
People are very disappointed by the new government working on the election 
campaigns, residence of Yanukovych and adopting laws that support separatism.
Status (evening Feb 26, 2014) 50 
One of the protestors gives an interview. Tells that his 
friend personally saw “titushky” cutting off heads of 2 
protestors, scalping 1 protestor. Video appears with a 
man without head. 
People and journalists come to the house of Tsaryov, 
deputy of the Party of Regions. Do not dare to enter 
because of snipers on the roofs. 
Set of signets found in of the offices of the Party of 
Regions. Could be used for falsification in the regional 
precincts during the president election campaigns. 
Activists dismantled the fence around the building of the 
Parliament in Kyiv. 
Journalists claim that people have shot Andriy Kluyev. 
Man without head 
Tsaryov’s residence 
Signets in the office
Status (evening Feb 28, 2014) 51 
Military armed with lots of weapon occupied buildings 
of the Parliament and government in Crimea. Raised the 
Russian flag over it. Do not listen to local police. 
Evidences of Russian army units movements through the 
territory of Crimea. Russia calls it the planned trainings. 
Should notify 72 hours in advance according to agreement. 
Yanukovych gives a press-conference in Rostov-na-Donu 
(Russia), doesn’t accept the new government in Ukraine. 
Asks Vladimir Putin to restore order in Ukraine. 
Militaries without identification signs occupy international 
airport Bel’bek in Crimea. Military helicopters coming. 
Russian army blocks numerous military units of Ukraine 
all over Crimea. 
Situation in Crimea 
Yanukovych press-conference 
Military helicopters
Status (evening Mar 1, 2014) 52 
Leader of the pro Russian party, Aksyonov – illegally 
assigned as the minister of Crimea. After assigning the 
citizen of Russia as a mayor of Sevastopol. 
People are threatened by myths about extremists coming 
from centre/west to kill people. Russian passports issued. 
Militaries forbid journalists to record them, threat to 
shoot. Take the memory cards away. 
Pro Russian activist occupy the building of the regional 
administration in Kharkiv, occupied by Euromaidan 
activist before. Two activists killed. Ukrainian writer beaten. 
The State Council of Russian Federation officially gives 
permission to Vladimir Putin to garrison Russian military 
forces in Ukraine. 
Russian militaries hide faces 
Russian army in Crimea 
Occupation of administration
Status (evening Mar 2, 2014) 53 
Ukraine asks NATO, USA and EU for support in resolving 
the conflict with Russia. All they officially agree that the 
actions of Russia are unacceptable and should be stopped. 
Photos show that the man who had put Russian flag over 
the Administration building in Kharkiv is a citizen of 
Moscow, Russia who disappeared afterwards. 
Russian militaries block military airport Belbeck and 
other military units. Trying to disarm Ukrainian army. 
Numerous protests in Russia against military intrusion 
into Ukraine. Police arrests 300+ antiwar protestors. 
Protest all over Ukraine, including eastern regions and 
Crimea against intrusion of Russian army. 
Same people noticed in distant pro-Russian meetings. 
Russian citizen with flag 
Blockade by Russian soldiers 
Arrests of Russian protestors
Status (evening Mar 3, 2014) 54 
Russia strengthens the informational war against Ukraine. 
Explains the military intrusion in Ukraine by numerous 
false statements about danger to lives of Russian citizens. 
Numerous journalists compare V.Putin to Stalin and 
Hitler due to his aggression against peaceful Ukraine. 
Largest Crimean TV channel went off the air because of 
threats to lives of the journalists. 
Russian jet fighters illegally crossed Ukrainian aerial 
borders twice. Intercepted by Ukrainian jets. 
V.Yanukovych appealed to Russian president V.Putin to 
use Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. 
Few Russian military trucks crossed the border with 
Ukraine. Soldiers seized Ukrainian border post. 
About actions of Putin 
Russia vs Ukraine (Crimea)
Summary of the battle 55 
In 3 days (Feb. 18-20, 2014): 
Regime of Yanukovych overturn. 
Most of people responsible for killing people have escaped. 
New opposition government doesn’t act in the interests of the people. 
New voting in Parliament is not transparent. Important issues not covered at all. 
100+ people dead 1000+ people injured 
Video covering 3 days of war in Ukraine Clip devoted to those who have died 
Three Days Of War Heaven hundred
Notable Politically Exposed Persons of Ukraine 56 
Viktor Yanukovych 
President, the only 
person in history of 
Ukraine to ignite protests of 
1 million people (2004, 2013, ?) 
Oleksandr Yanukovych 
Son of the President 
Parliamentarian, 
Billionaire, (Dentist) 
Mykola Azarov 
Former 
Prime Minister 
(Resigned) 
Andriy Kluyev 
Parliamentarian, 
Billionaire 
Serhiy Kluyev 
Secretary of the 
National Defence and 
Security Council, 
Billionaire 
Serhiy Arbuzov 
Current 
Prime Minister, 
former Head of the 
National Bank of Ukraine 
Oleksandr Yefremov 
Parliamentarian, 
Head of the 
Party of the Regions 
Oleksandr Klymenko 
Head of the 
Tax Administration 
Rinat Akhmetov 
Former 
Parliamentarian, 
Billionaire 
(Ukraine’s richest man)
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Appendix: Why “titushky”? 58 
Name originates from the last name of Vadym Titushko - martial art fighter: 
Captured while beating journalists of 5 Kanal on May 18, 2013 
Was one of dozens of fighters paid by government to intimidate protesters 
Since then, every massive protest in Ukraine is accompanied by gangs of such 
thugs who beat people, provoke fights and arrests. 
Titushki are never arrested by police. Complaints about them are ignored. 
Often unemployed, some with criminal history. 
Usually are of age 17-30 years old. 
Payed with USD 15-80 per completed task. 
Unlike real protesters always hide faces from cameras. 
Vadym Titushko & others 
Have been used as pro-government demonstrators in December of 2013.

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  • 1. Jan 23, 2014 - Mar 3, 2014 What is really happening in Ukraine -15ºC (5ºF)
  • 2. Prerequisites of the Conflict 2 Nov 23-29, 2013 President Yanukovich refuses to sign the EU association. Massive peaceful protests arise all over Ukraine demanding to sign the association. Nov 30, 2013 “Berkut” units brutally disperse protesters at night beating women and students. Huge protests in Kyiv. People coming from all over Ukraine. People demand punishment of responsible for brutal actions. Dec 8, 2013 Government doesn’t react. President behaves like nothing happens. “March of million”. About a million protesters in Kyiv, thousands in other cities. People demand dismissal of the government.
  • 3. Prerequisites of the Conflict 3 Dec 2013 No charges or dismissals by the Regime. Instead, protesters are arrested, jailed awaiting trial. Protesters occupy Kyiv administration building, organise protests near the homes of key government officials. Jan 16, 2014 20 anti-democratic, unconstitutional laws passed against Parliamentary voting procedures. Protesting: 15 years in prison. Wearing a helmet: beating by Police. Protests increase. Radicalized protesters equipped with body protection, sticks and petrol bombs organise to occupy the Grushevs’kogo Street protected by “Berkut” units. tension starts to grow even further
  • 4. Prerequisites of the Conflict The regime ignores peaceful protests of Euromaidan, escalates conflict to beatings, arrests of peaceful people for wearing helmets, carrying wood, other “crimes”. European association is no longer an issue, as the Regime begins to attack its own people. Violence escalates. 4
  • 5. The Regime: Violence / Enforcement Domestic Police Riot Troops: Berkut First Team Prison guards, seasoned troops, special forces. Protect government representatives with shields, batons, tear gas, stun grenades, rifles. Extremely violent, shoot-to-kill, beat skulls and ribs with batons, shoot-journalists-on-site. 7 activists/journalists dead nearly 100 missing Domestic Police Riot Troops: Berkut Draftees Young, mostly untrained, obligatory-service troops who are placed in the front lines to take the bulk of any violence, while First Team awaits opportunity to attack. High descension and fear of the government. Have limited information about reason of the protests. 5
  • 6. The Regime: Violence / Enforcement Hired Enforcers: “Titushky” Paid in cash, enlisted and controlled by government initiative through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Additional muscle when there is a need to keep government activities “out of uniform”. Search-and-destroy teams in the streets against activists and journalists. Crash shops, destroy property. “Titushky” mimic protesters to discredit real activists and intimidate people, preventing them from joining the protests. 1 000 - 1 400 men with hammers, iron balls and narcotics regularly witnessed as organised groups in the centre of Kyiv and other cities. Numerous evidences of close cooperation with Berkut (never arrested when committing illegal actions). 6
  • 7. The Regime: The Informational War TV / Press (Ukraine and Russia) Press (International) An informational vacuum exists within Ukraine and in neighbouring Russia. Ukrainian state channels, non-state channels purchased/captured by the “Family”. Russian channels control the most of the airways. Only two major newspapers remain independent. Free internet is vital. The western press continues to see the protests in cold war terms: “Euro-centric” or fundamentally based on “ethnic/language” splitting in Ukraine. Lack of good Ukraine-based journalism in English. Heavy lobbying campaigns in Europe and Washington assist in this misunderstanding. 7
  • 8. The People: Activist 8 “Euromaidan” + “Radical Maidan” “AutoMaidan” Believe that control of locations and threat of force back are key factors to maintain pressure on the regime. Seek the cancellation of anti-constitutional laws, full dismissal of Yanukovych and his government. Use helmets, pans (to protect heads), wooden sticks, stones, petrol bombs, fireworks. + songs, poetry, speech. Self-organised car owners who can react fast on illegal actions from the government side. Transport medicine, people, food to the protesters. Organise protests outside Kyiv, chase “titushky”, protect people in hospitals from kidnapping by “Berkut”.
  • 9. The People: Media/Medical 9 Mass Media Field Medicine HromadskeTV, SpilnoTV, 5-th Channel, Chesno, Euromaidan(fb), Automaidan(fb), RadicalMaidan(fb), … Journalists are being chased and shot on purpose, forcing them to remove ID’s so as not to be noticed by Berkut. 1 journalist tortured to death. Volunteers helping hundreds of injured protesters with wounds from rifle shots, batons, extreme cold. Are constantly under aimed attacks from “Berkut”. Use donated medicines from regular people. Work mainly in buildings to protect from “Berkut”.
  • 10. The Regime: Tactics Intimidation. Increase pressure, keep people scared, depress scale of protests: • Violence: Titushky for random/pointed beating of people • Fear: SMS broadcast on Maidan informing people that they are registered as criminal protesters and are being monitored (at least 2 cellular providers sent such messages) • Kidnapping/torturing of injured people from hospitals DEAD • Military forces being moved to Kyiv from other regions Ihor Lutsenko Kidnapped, tortured, • Suspected use of foreign forces thrown out in a field • Arresting people who buy/transport stuff commonly used by protesters (e.g. tires, wood, large amounts of medicine, clothes) Yurij Verbytskyj Kidnapped, tortured, found in the same field 10
  • 11. The Regime: Tactics 11 Liquidate as many protesters as possible: • Field medicine workers being shot on purpose • Police searches for protesters in hospital based on the injury types • Injured protesters must be sent to private clinics to avoid torturing by Berkut • Police attach nails and stones to stun grenades • Police aiming for heads with shotguns and batons, people losing eyes • Captured protesters are stripped, tortured, humiliated and taken to unknown places, afterwards found naked in fields and forests, Caution! sometimes dead Brutal violence!
  • 12. The Regime: Tactics 12 Limit documentation and distribution of materials about real events in Ukraine • Journalists are being shot on purpose (1+ dead) • Cameras and other equipment destroyed on sight • Users being randomly disconnected from internet and cellular networks • Phones are withdrawn from all local police units for weeks. They don’t know why people are protesting. Are threatened by tribunal for disobedience Deactivate major activists and leaders of protests (15+ activists can’t be found) IHOR LUTSENKO YURIY VERBYTS’KYJ Euromaidan activist Tortured. In hospital. Euromaidan activist Tortured. Dead. DMYTRO BULATOV Automaidan leader Beaten. Unknown. MYHAJLO ZHYZNEVS’KYJ Euromaidan guard Shot dead by a sniper.
  • 13. The People: Strategy 13 Radical Maidan holds Berkut under pressure on Grushevs’kogo Str. Automaidan activists patrol the city: Deactivating, disarming and documenting “titushky” gangs Blocking buses with police units from entering the city centre Transport injured people to hospitals Maximize effectiveness of donations and volunteers: Legal advocacy for the illegally arrested Trained medical personnel giving first aid to victims of police attacks Food, clothing, blankets, fuel and various gear distributed to activists All over Ukraine, blocking municipal buildings, military bases, police buses Young military students beg for blockades, as they are being forced to go to Kyiv and fight)
  • 14. Status (night Jan 23, 2014) 14 5 out of 25 Local State Administrations occupied by the People Interior troops forces in 4 cities resign (refusing to perform illegal actions) Football fans of three clubs joined up with protesters in Kyiv and Donetsk Result of violent Police actions: • 150+ police units injured (light injuries of head/hands from stones and fire) • 1500+ people injured (crushed skulls, lost eyes, broken limbs, contusion) • 4 people killed (2 shot, 1 thrown from a pillar, 1 tortured to death) • 15+ people detained with no explanations, locations remain unknown • 70+ journalists injured from precise attacks on people with cameras • 30+ medical workers injured Brutal and cynical human rights violations
  • 15. Status (afternoon Jan 25, 2014) 15 Meetings all over the world supporting protests in Ukraine: Germany, France, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, USA, … Russian Federation and Belarus – the only countries where meetings supporting Euromaidan are dispersed by the police. Meeting in Moscow All major Russian mass media massively spread highly biased information emphasising honourable work of “Berkut” and Nazi orientation of activists. People being beaten and detained by police in public places, trains, shops, when buying wood, medicine and other things used by protesters, wearing symbolic ribbons with Ukrainian and European flags, Euromaidan badges… “Berkut” officers receive bonuses for each hour of standing on the Grushevskogo Str.. Rumors of raises abound. Ministry of Internal Affairs reports ~100 of “Berkut” units with frostbitten feet, as they are forced to stand for up to 12 hours in the streets.
  • 16. Status (afternoon Jan 25, 2014) 16 10 out of 25 Local State Administrations occupied by protesters. Protests arising in eastern regions. 15 activists of Automaidan beaten and imprisoned without hospitalisation despite heavy injuries from Berkut attacks. Hundreds of protesters detained and imprisoned. People Seizure attempts Government Massive protests Ministry of Internal Affairs blames Protests supported by fans of football clubs Euromaidan in killing 1 and detaining 2 policemen. Protesters deny. +1 dead protester: metal bullet in lungs, bullet in shoulder, amputated arm, death. Automaidan offers 10 000 UAH reward for help in finding the team leader Dmytro Bulatov (Jan 22, 2014 disappeared, no more information). 250+ armed military units detected hidden in the International Convention Center near the Euromaidan peaceful demonstration.
  • 17. Status (afternoon Jan 26, 2014) 17 Massive protests arise on the east and south Armed military units leave International Convention Center under pressure by protesters, leave supplies of canned food and vodka. Yanukovych proposed ruling positions in People’s Council legitimised the government to 2 Opposition leaders. People Seizure attempts Government Massive protests People not satisfied, Opposition refuses. Protests Protests supporting supported by fans the ruling party Euromaidan wants dismissal of the president of football clubs as the main responsible for deaths, tortures and thousands of victims. “Titushki” under protection of the police found shooting peaceful demonstrators with traumatic weapons in Dnipropetrovsk. Leading businessmen Victor Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov break with Yanukovych and publicly call for stopping the use of brutal force.
  • 18. Status (evening Jan 26, 2014) 18 The Ukrainian protests of 2013 and 2014: Were triggered by Yanukovych’s about-face on a European trajectory. Became massive due to the Regime’s brutal crack down on peaceful protesters, and their refusal to hold anyone accountable. Became violent due to the illegal passing of anti-constitutional laws against public protest and the Regime’s tactics of arresting, beating, kidnapping, torturing and murdering of protesters, journalists and medics. Will continue to grow due to the wide recognition of the Regime’s corruption, theft, money laundering, cronyism, censorship, and its singular goal to maintain the extreme wealth that it has gained over the last 3 years. Will stop only with a return of justice, human rights, rule of the law of Ukraine. Will have lasting, serious consequences that Ukrainians will have to overcome.
  • 19. Status (morning Jan 27, 2014) 19 Level of aggressiveness of the riot police rises. Demonstrators in 5 cities are violently beaten and arrested without hospitalisation. “Titushky” provoke protesters for aggression, hide behind the police, then protesters are being beaten and arrested. “Titushky” burn cars of the protesters. Police arrests the owners who try to protect the cars. In Dnipropetrovsk World heavy-weight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko posts a video asking western countries to help Ukraine. Numerous money-exchange centres reporting about people with a clear Russian accent massively exchanging RUB→UAH (Possible Russian police coming for provocations?) Journalists are asked to watch closely the airports for possible Russian police coming to Ukraine, changing into Ukrainian uniform. Police threatens the journalist W. Klitschko
  • 20. Status (morning Jan 27, 2014) 20 Ministry of Internal Affairs refuses to start investigations about people shot during the protests on the basis of “official claims to police about the deaths”. People can’t make official claims about killed victims because they are immediately arrested. Hundreds of people remain missing all over Ukraine. Morgues in Kyiv report dozens of unidentified dead bodies being transported by police without any explanation. Government continues threatening people with calling a state of emergency. Killed people are labeled as “extremists” by the government. The latest fatality, Roman Senyk, was shot from the large height according to the doctors’ examinations (presumably by a sniper). 2 gangs of “Titushky” were fighting each other to make the impression of the protesters beating civilians (according to protesters and witnesses in Donetsk).
  • 21. Status (evening Jan 27, 2014) 21 +2 dead bodies in Kyiv found in the morning 1 hanged on the Christmas tree near the Euromaidan 1 tortured, with tied hands (in the district where 15 members of Automaidan are being imprisoned) POLICE “TITUSHKO” PROTESTER Clear evidence of the police cooperating with “titushky”? Control over Local States People’s Council legitimised People Government Massive protests Seizure attempts Protests supporting the ruling party Protection gangs of the ruling party created Ruling party fraction broken up Police+”titushky” beating unarmed people Control of ruling party restored Ruling party forbidden Party “Swoboda” forbidden
  • 22. Status (evening Jan 27, 2014) 22 2004 Eurovision contest winner Ruslana reports numerous threats to kill her. Police department in Rivne city supports protesters and asks for help due to numerous attacks on women by pro-government gangs (“titushky”). THE WORLD DOES CARE! this presentation viewed 63 587 11 869 210 862 5 6 937 4 084 7 635 105 574 31 735 30 457 15 928 98 994 # of times 7 415 19 496 637 102 10 297 14 428 93 > 500 000 in total
  • 23. Status (evening Jan 28, 2014) 23 Protesters suspend waiting for the results of negotiations between the government and opposition (adopting laws by the parliament). Parliament dismisses 9 laws from Jan 16, 2014. 4 of these are adopted again. While the government calls for compromises: People continue to disappear from hospitals/streets all over Ukraine People participating in demonstrations being arrested for 2 months Other 5 (10 in total) cars belonging to Automaidan activists burnt Commandants of Kyiv houses report about Police looking for people seen with ammunition, helmets, coming home late systematically, distributing Euromaidan agitation brochures noting names, address and telephone numbers of such people noting license plates of cars having Ukraine/EU symbolics on it
  • 24. Status (evening Jan 28, 2014) 24 New prime minister – Arbuzov, former Head of NBU, no substantive change. Austrian bank Hypo Vorarlberg confirms that Kluyev brothers lied in the registration documents not mentioning PEP status (illegal in Austria). Canada restricts entry for key figures of the Ukrainian government. Majority of journalists and public figures acknowledge existence of “squadrons of death” which kidnap/torture/kill anti-government activists. Owners of 3 large shopping centres in Dnipropetrovsk leave Ukraine due to threats and persecution by the government after showing 5 Kanal news on the advertisement monitors at night. Activists start gathering information about missing people to initiate investigation since police arrests everybody with claims about disappeared people. Numerous cases of people being arrested when buying wood, gas, tires, etc.
  • 25. Status (evening Jan 29, 2014) 25 Delegations from EU and US arrive to Ukraine to spectate the voting procedures by Parliament, help to avoid violence. Parliament adopts a law about amnesty of all imprisoned protesters, again with violation of voting procedures. Most deputies refused to adopt the law until Yanukovych urgently arrived with threats. Only few saw the actual text of the law. Few Local Administrations being released by protesters. Temperature goes down to -20ºC (-4ºF). EU and US delegation members are not satisfied by the steps made by the government. Suspect that Yanukovych tries to do as little as possible to gain sympathy of the West to avoid sanctions. People don’t want to “bargain” with Yanukovych and demand satisfaction of their requirements prior to negotiation about compromises.
  • 26. Status (afternoon Jan 30, 2014) 26 Yanukovych doesn’t sign the law about amnesty of imprisoned protesters. Yanukovych is officially on sick leave. Due to respiration disease. Minister of Internal Affairs (Vitaliy Zakharchenko) reports about death of the police captain in the Grushevs’kogo Str. from heart attack. Claims protester’s pressure as a cause. People blame long working hours at low temperature. +20 cars of Euromaidan participants burnt during the night. Volunteer medical workers imprisoned. Incriminating organisation of civil disorders. Several owners of used tires shops arrested without any investigation/testimony. One of the arrested businessmen is from Holland. “Titushky“ break a camera in front of the police. Police + “titushky” in cooperation
  • 27. Status (night Jan 30, 2014) 27 Leader of Automaidan Dmytro Bulatov found (missing since Jan 22, 2014). Thrown out in a village (area where 2 other tortured victims were found). Tortured extremely violently: multiple cuts on face, part of ear cut off was crucified (holes in hands), broken limbs not fed for last 3 days Same scenario as with 2 previous victims. Tortured to tell who organises protests, who pays to people. No investigation started on any case of kidnapping/torturing (since Jan 20, 2014). Dmytro Bulatov Attackers have Russian accent. Convinced that protests are sponsored by USA.
  • 28. Status (evening Jan 31, 2014) 28 Police arrives to the private clinic to arrest Dmytro Bulatov (the Automaidan leader) despite critical state of health. Opposition deputies and activists urgently arrive to stop the police from taking him away. Many proofs emerge showing that first rows of riot police troops consist of young cadets. Always denied by chiefs of riot police. Dmytro Bulatov in the hospital Mothers of cadets arrive to Kyiv with demonstrations. Asking to disobey illegal orders against the People. Mother of one of the cadets reports about awful working conditions of the cadets. Continuously under pressure of anti-Euromaidan propaganda. Used as human shields. Olga Patlatenko Protests near the Deutsche Bank in the Wall Street (New York) calling for stopping serving the UBD Bank (business of the president’s son)
  • 29. Status (evening Feb 2, 2014) 29 Former prime minister Azarov leaves Ukraine on a private plane. Joins his son in Viena, Austria. Austrian FORTMAT.AT publishes the complete money laundering scheme used by Yanukovych, Azarov, Kluyev in Austria. Demonstrations arise near the Azarov’s house. Ukraine – one of the main topics at Munich Security Conference. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara mentions “just a scratch” on the cheek of Dmytro Bulatov. Cynically calls the protesters in Ukraine as “extremists”. +4 cars burnt in Kyiv. Activists ask people to park cars near buildings with surveillance. Remove license plates at night to prevent identification of protesters’ cars and potential damage. Organisation of civil disorders incriminated to Dmytro Bulatov. Demonstration in Austria Munich Security Conference
  • 30. Status (night Feb 3, 2014) 30 President Yanukovych returns from the sick leave right after the EU delegation leaves Ukraine. Plans to visit Sochi Olympic Games in Russian Federation. USA and EU are working on plan of financial support for Ukraine. Dmytro Bulatov is transported to Riga - Vilnus for intensive treatment. Chesno.org reports about 136 injured journalists. Military journalists claim: at war it’s even safer. 1739 victims of repression in 3 months of protests. People from Ministry of Internal Affairs unofficially tell about Russian Special Forces in Ukraine from Jan 20, 2014. Numerous metal bullets found on the area of clashes with riot police. Few extracted from dead bodies. Police always claimed only rubber bullets being used.
  • 31. Status (evening Feb 4, 2014) 31 Euromaidan guards detained 2 riot police officers + 1 interior troops soldier in civilian clothes spying the area. Returned to the commander. Euromaidan activist (Sissel K. Andersen) from Denmark disappeared. Demonstrations near the Akhmetov’s (Ukrainian richest man) residence in London. Ukrainian customs house blocks humanitarian relief for Euromaidan from Poland. Demonstration in London New evidence of Police using Molotov cocktails. 2 members of Klitschko’s “Udar” party assassinated. Oleg Garyaga: 3 stab wounds from civilians. Vitaliy Serpokrylov: house ransacked by 20 policemen. Russian oppositional TV channel banned by most Russian networks presumably due to showing the real Euromaidan. Molotov & Berkut
  • 32. Status (evening Feb 6, 2014) 32 Police stops civilian cars approaching Kyiv, confiscates wood as potential help to Euromaidan. Similar wood brought to Police and pro-government gangs 3 days later. A gang of teenagers destroyed 2 restaurants in Kyiv mimicking Euromaidan protesters. Wearing sneakers: typical for pro-government gangs. Not used by Euromaidan. Explosive put in a package marked “Medicine” for Euromaidan detonated in headquarters building. Identical package identified in another building. 2 victims of the explosion: Roman Dzivinskyj, 20 years, amputated left hand; Nazar Derzhylo , 15 years old, burnt eyes; Euromaidan commandant Andriy Parubiy suspects government’s provocation: numerous attempts of police to oust people with fictitious reports about bomb in the building.
  • 33. Status (night Feb 8, 2014) 33 Protest near the Ukraine embassy in Washington DC on arrival of Ukrainian delegation. Yanukovych is one of the few presidents not shown in the live opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Only Russian TV showed Ukrainian president. Protest in Washington DC Sochi. 4 Ukrainian Olympic Games sportsmen registered by organisers as born in Russia instead of Ukraine (mistake?) Additional evidences of riot police using forbidden weapons against protesters showing up. Dmytro Bulatov gives a press conference in Vilnus. Euromaidan guards stop the pro-government gang with intention to dismount the barricades. Court of Cherkasy forbids any protests due to infection. Photos of Bulatov’s injuries
  • 34. Status (evening Feb 10, 2014) 34 Gang of armed activists “For clean Kyiv” with russian symbolic ribbons of Saint George ( ) come to Kyiv centre to disassemble the barricades. Met by hundreds of smiling Euromaidan guards, leave the area. Euromaidan guards find an abandoned room near the Maidan with lots of computers and video-records of Euromaidan activists. Have signs of possible explosives preparation. The building belongs to the “Graal” company connected to the Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk. Solidarity demonstration in the Maidan to support the Russian TV channel “Dozhd” (Rain) — removed from Russian TV networks for showing the Euromaidan objectively. Parliament continues to ignore People’s demand to adopt the old version of Constitution 2004 limiting the president’s credentials. Protection of barricades Support of the “Dozhd” TV
  • 35. Status (evening Feb 12, 2014) 35 Monitors in public transport of Crimea start showing advertisements accusing opposition and Euromaidan leaders of extremism and betrayal. Politicians asking Russian Federation for military support in Crimea. Ukrainian hryvnya devaluated by 20% already. Auto of a Euromaidan activist in Rivne burnt at night. Ruling Party of Regions fraction in Lviv self-dismissed. Journalist investigation proves that police lets rich people inside the prohibited zone to the luxury boutique. Government doesn’t follow the adopted amnesty law, releasing innocent protesters only under house arrest with 15-year imprisonment threat. Youtube blocks the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to overwhelming complaints on publication of misleading and abusing information. Surveillance video of burning Luxury boutique investigation
  • 36. Status (night Feb 14, 2014) 36 Official report of the court about a sniper working on the Grushevs’kogo Str. NAFTOGAS limits gas supply to 11 regions that have active protests on the west and centre. Largest debts in eastern regions. Strike of the trolleybus drivers in Luhans’k due to no salary for over 4 months. Billboards with anti-Euromaidan propaganda in Crimea. EU representative Jeffrey Luebbe beaten in Simferopol (Crimea) for expressing support of the Euromaidan. Euromaidan and Automaidan activist Serhiy Synenko burnt in his car in Zaporizhghya. Football fans of numerous Ukrainian clubs announce temporary peace to unite for support of Euromaidan.
  • 37. Status (evening Feb 16, 2014) 37 Ministry of Internal Affairs denies participation of Berkut officers in brutal destroying of civilian vehicles. Video clearly refutes this statement. Trainers of multiple schools of martial arts support Euromaidan. Organise free trainings for the protesters. Demonstration of Automaidan in Chicago. Demonstration supporting Euromaidan in St. Petersburg. Tatars community in Crimea express readiness to resist separatist pro-Russian movements in the region. Pro-government news channel Podrobnosti posts messages in the official Twitter channel: “We are the most deceitful news” and “D.V. Firtash, sorry, you don’t have enough money on the account to continue lying in this blog” Berkut crashing civilian car Automaidan in Chicago
  • 38. Summary of the protests 38 7 people dead 1 policeman dead ? ? ? ??.??.19?? – 22-25.01.2014 ? Dozens reported missing + Morgues report unidentified bodies = Dead? Why do not people stop the protests… What do people call EU and US for… Price of democracy People of Ukraine ask the world for support
  • 39. Status (afternoon Feb 18, 2014) 39 Ministry of Internal Affairs removes accusation from several activists. Young girls painted military trucks used by security forces as barricades. Protestors block the building of Parliament demanding satisfaction of the requirements of Euromaidan. Mobilisation of medicine personnel announced in the centre of Kyiv. Snipers captured in the centre of Kyiv. Painted military trucks Blocking of the Parliament Snipers in Kyiv Witnesses report about snipers shooting in a protester and then shooting in a security force officer causing a start of the WAR IN UKRAINE
  • 40. Status (evening Feb 18, 2014) 40 Police starts an attack of the protestors using batons, shotguns. Snipers shooting people from the roofs. Security forces burn 1-st and 9-th floor of the field hospital building with doctors and injured people inside. People being killed by precise shots in head and neck. Security forces using automatic guns including AK-47. People all over Ukraine assaulting security forces, police buildings. In Kmelnytskyj woman shot from AK-47. People burn the military truck to limit visibility for snipers. Protestors coming to Kyiv to give support. Police blocks all entrances to Kyiv. Underground blocked. Security forces in few cities support protestors. Snipers on the roof Burning field hospital Battle in the Instytutska Str.
  • 41. Status (evening Feb 19, 2014) 41 20+ people killed. 600+ people injured. Electricity switched off in the centre. Many people trapped in the field hospital building due to fallen floors, that were burnt by security forces. People burned alive. People block buses with security forces/payed thugs on roads all over Ukraine. Ukrainian skier Bohdana Matsyots’ka left Sochi Olympic Games to protest against the Ukrainian government. After meeting with Yanukovych Klitschko claims that the president doesn’t adequately treat the situation demanding that people go home. Battles in the centre of Kyiv suspended while snipers continue shooting people and new forces coming to Kyiv. Yanukovych changes the head of military forces of Ukraine to Yuriy Il’yin who would execute his orders to act against people.
  • 42. Status (afternoon Feb 20, 2014) 42 30 000+ people in the Independence Square in Kyiv preparing the barricades waiting for the new assault. Dozens of police units become hostages of protestors. Dozens on deaths every hour from sniper attacks on unarmed people with only helmets/shields/sticks. People block trains with security forces coming to Kyiv. Underground starts working. Deputies massively leaving Kyiv through the VIP terminal in Zhulyany airport with large bags full of money. Minister of Internal Affairs asks people to leave the area. Announces that security forces are officially allowed to use deadly weapons after 70+ shot dead already. Independence Square Cruel sniper attacks Snipers/automatic guns
  • 43. Status (evening Feb 20, 2014) 43 People building the wall in the Independence Square using bricks from sidewalks. People bringing tons of food to help those in the battle. Deputies of the Party of Regions start leaving it. Building the wall ~700 of “titushky” arrive to fight against people. USA applies sanctions against some Ukrainian politicians. New majority formed in the Ukrainian Parliament voting for stopping the fire by all security forces, returning them Blocking of trains to the places of permanent dislocation. Security forces started to throw grenades and shoot more intensively after the adoption of the resolutions. “Titusuhki” armed with guns, shooting people, crash shops, ambulances.
  • 44. Status (evening Feb 21, 2014) 44 Yanukovych signs the peaceful agreement with the opposition. Acknowledged by European delegation. Russia doesn’t sign. Group of police units armed with automatic guns enter the Parliament. Deputies lead them out. Polish delegate claims that Yanukovych was ready to use army for cleaning up the centre of Kyiv. All the security forces urgently leave Kyiv very fast, leaving lots of ammunition. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Vitaliy Zakharchenko left to Belorussia. Many deputies left to eastern Ukraine, Russia. Requiem for the victims held in the Independence Square. Requiem in Kyiv People are suspicious about the opposition leaders. Are absolutely not satisfied by the agreement with Yanukovych. Demand dismissal and punishment of Yanukovych, all people responsible for beating and killing people in last 3 months. The governor of Kharkiv plans a meeting of deputies of eastern regions.
  • 45. Status (afternoon Feb 22, 2014) 45 The guards of the Maidan with journalists arrive to the president’s residence left empty without any security. Looks like people were escaping quickly. Neighbours saw dozens of buses being stacked with stuff and leaving the residence in a hurry. The house is empty. Many luxury leftovers (icons, gold coins, old paintings, antique vases) in the garage. Look like it didn’t fit in the bus. Multiple heaps of burned papers, documents. Some thrown out in the lake. Saved documents show the receipts of hundred million dollar cash transfers. Lots of guns, automatic guns, rifles, bullets found on the bottom of the lake. Leftovers in the residence Documents in the residence Weapons in the residence
  • 46. Status (evening Feb 22, 2014) 46 Julia Tymoshenko released from the prison. Urgently transported to the Euromaidan stage in Kyiv. Tymoshenko delivered a prepared speech in front of protestors. Reported about the plan to immediately Tymoshenko released return to politics and “to protect” the whole Ukraine. Majority of people are offended, do not believe her, considering all the lies and crimes she committed while being in politics. People don’t want to see Tymoshenko in politics. Express great complaints about actions of the new government. In particular – giving priority to release of Tymoshenko instead of actual releasing all the illegally arrested activists, investigation of all the deaths, punishment of people responsible for ~100 deaths. Russian politicians express suspicious willingness to work with Tymoshenko, unlike they were before, when opposition was represented by other people.
  • 47. Status (evening Feb 23, 2014) 47 Yanukovych makes an announcement denying to resign, calling protestors extremists, calling for stopping the separatist actions. Nobody can find the president. Documents with detailed descriptions of plans of the Autopark of Yanukovych attacks, including special forces, snipers made public. People find wide animals on the territory of the president’s residence used for hunting, garage full of luxury cars. Heads of the Kharkiv, who threatened protestors with cruel reprisal, return to the city after escaping the day before. Look very confident. Demonstration in Kerch Politicians and pro-Russian public organisation in Crimea initiate separatist meetings with Russian flags. Meetings against separation of Crimea form as well. Pro-Russian demonstrants destroy Ukrainian flags in several cities.
  • 48. Status (evening Feb 24, 2014) 48 Video appears demonstrating police units armed with automatic guns, sniper rifles, shooting people. The new Minister of Internal Affairs, Avakov reports that Yanukovych can’t be found. Part of his guards left him. Was trying to leave Ukraine on the airplane but the military plane was flying around and not letting him. According to the TV channel ATR, Yanukovych is hiding in the Russian military base in Sevastopol, Crimea. The residence of the attorney general’s house visited by activists shows the same level of crazy luxury. 4 deputies of the Russian Parliament arrive to Simpferopol. Witnesses report about Russian military cars in Crimea. People not satisfied by cheating of the new government. Armed security forces Residence of the attorney Russian deputies
  • 49. Status (evening Feb 25, 2014) 49 Journalists captured many military cars with Russian license plates entering the Russian sanatorium in Yalta. Euromaidan guards found 2 “titushky”. They told that: • were paid 400 hryvnias (~50 USD) Russian army in Yalta • had to participate in pro-government demonstrations • asked to take photos of people supporting Euromaidan • one cried, told that he was cheated and used People from Lviv (western Ukraine) announce an action: Action of solidarity will speak Russian to support people from the eastern Ukraine People from Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) announce that they will speak Ukrainian to show solidarity with people from western and central Ukraine. People are very disappointed by the new government working on the election campaigns, residence of Yanukovych and adopting laws that support separatism.
  • 50. Status (evening Feb 26, 2014) 50 One of the protestors gives an interview. Tells that his friend personally saw “titushky” cutting off heads of 2 protestors, scalping 1 protestor. Video appears with a man without head. People and journalists come to the house of Tsaryov, deputy of the Party of Regions. Do not dare to enter because of snipers on the roofs. Set of signets found in of the offices of the Party of Regions. Could be used for falsification in the regional precincts during the president election campaigns. Activists dismantled the fence around the building of the Parliament in Kyiv. Journalists claim that people have shot Andriy Kluyev. Man without head Tsaryov’s residence Signets in the office
  • 51. Status (evening Feb 28, 2014) 51 Military armed with lots of weapon occupied buildings of the Parliament and government in Crimea. Raised the Russian flag over it. Do not listen to local police. Evidences of Russian army units movements through the territory of Crimea. Russia calls it the planned trainings. Should notify 72 hours in advance according to agreement. Yanukovych gives a press-conference in Rostov-na-Donu (Russia), doesn’t accept the new government in Ukraine. Asks Vladimir Putin to restore order in Ukraine. Militaries without identification signs occupy international airport Bel’bek in Crimea. Military helicopters coming. Russian army blocks numerous military units of Ukraine all over Crimea. Situation in Crimea Yanukovych press-conference Military helicopters
  • 52. Status (evening Mar 1, 2014) 52 Leader of the pro Russian party, Aksyonov – illegally assigned as the minister of Crimea. After assigning the citizen of Russia as a mayor of Sevastopol. People are threatened by myths about extremists coming from centre/west to kill people. Russian passports issued. Militaries forbid journalists to record them, threat to shoot. Take the memory cards away. Pro Russian activist occupy the building of the regional administration in Kharkiv, occupied by Euromaidan activist before. Two activists killed. Ukrainian writer beaten. The State Council of Russian Federation officially gives permission to Vladimir Putin to garrison Russian military forces in Ukraine. Russian militaries hide faces Russian army in Crimea Occupation of administration
  • 53. Status (evening Mar 2, 2014) 53 Ukraine asks NATO, USA and EU for support in resolving the conflict with Russia. All they officially agree that the actions of Russia are unacceptable and should be stopped. Photos show that the man who had put Russian flag over the Administration building in Kharkiv is a citizen of Moscow, Russia who disappeared afterwards. Russian militaries block military airport Belbeck and other military units. Trying to disarm Ukrainian army. Numerous protests in Russia against military intrusion into Ukraine. Police arrests 300+ antiwar protestors. Protest all over Ukraine, including eastern regions and Crimea against intrusion of Russian army. Same people noticed in distant pro-Russian meetings. Russian citizen with flag Blockade by Russian soldiers Arrests of Russian protestors
  • 54. Status (evening Mar 3, 2014) 54 Russia strengthens the informational war against Ukraine. Explains the military intrusion in Ukraine by numerous false statements about danger to lives of Russian citizens. Numerous journalists compare V.Putin to Stalin and Hitler due to his aggression against peaceful Ukraine. Largest Crimean TV channel went off the air because of threats to lives of the journalists. Russian jet fighters illegally crossed Ukrainian aerial borders twice. Intercepted by Ukrainian jets. V.Yanukovych appealed to Russian president V.Putin to use Russian army on the territory of Ukraine. Few Russian military trucks crossed the border with Ukraine. Soldiers seized Ukrainian border post. About actions of Putin Russia vs Ukraine (Crimea)
  • 55. Summary of the battle 55 In 3 days (Feb. 18-20, 2014): Regime of Yanukovych overturn. Most of people responsible for killing people have escaped. New opposition government doesn’t act in the interests of the people. New voting in Parliament is not transparent. Important issues not covered at all. 100+ people dead 1000+ people injured Video covering 3 days of war in Ukraine Clip devoted to those who have died Three Days Of War Heaven hundred
  • 56. Notable Politically Exposed Persons of Ukraine 56 Viktor Yanukovych President, the only person in history of Ukraine to ignite protests of 1 million people (2004, 2013, ?) Oleksandr Yanukovych Son of the President Parliamentarian, Billionaire, (Dentist) Mykola Azarov Former Prime Minister (Resigned) Andriy Kluyev Parliamentarian, Billionaire Serhiy Kluyev Secretary of the National Defence and Security Council, Billionaire Serhiy Arbuzov Current Prime Minister, former Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Oleksandr Yefremov Parliamentarian, Head of the Party of the Regions Oleksandr Klymenko Head of the Tax Administration Rinat Akhmetov Former Parliamentarian, Billionaire (Ukraine’s richest man)
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  • 58. Appendix: Why “titushky”? 58 Name originates from the last name of Vadym Titushko - martial art fighter: Captured while beating journalists of 5 Kanal on May 18, 2013 Was one of dozens of fighters paid by government to intimidate protesters Since then, every massive protest in Ukraine is accompanied by gangs of such thugs who beat people, provoke fights and arrests. Titushki are never arrested by police. Complaints about them are ignored. Often unemployed, some with criminal history. Usually are of age 17-30 years old. Payed with USD 15-80 per completed task. Unlike real protesters always hide faces from cameras. Vadym Titushko & others Have been used as pro-government demonstrators in December of 2013.