east. they wanted to look west instead. so in response they started protesting. in november of 2013. and a few months into it, by february of 2014, the protests and the protesters were still there and they were not showing any signs of going away despite the cold winter and how long they had been out in the streets protesting already. by all counts, by february 2014, four months into these protests, moscow had started putting increasing pressure on their guy. on the pro-russian president of ukraine, that he needed to end this thing. to get these protesters off the streets of ukraine. and so by this time of the year, by mid-february, ukraine s president, the hand-picked guy, he gave the order. and security forces started using lethal force without restraint against their own
citizens in the streets. they started using live fire. over february 18th and february 19th and february 20th, between 2,000 and 3,000 citizens were injured by security forces and police operating in the streets of kyiv. people also started dying in considerable numbers. dozens of people killed. on february 20th alone, more than 50 people, more than 50 protesters in one day were murdered in the streets. some of them shot by snipers. shot from a distance by military time? ers using live ammunition. to kill teenagers, 83-year-olds, to kill these people who were protesting. at the end of that extraordinarily bloody day of february 2014, it was more than 100 people who had been shot dead in the streets and their
didn t want to sign that trade deal with europe. he wanted to sign a new deal with russia. instead of that decision by him they started protesting in november of 2013. andin a few months into it by february of 2014 the protests and the protesters were still there, and they were not showing any signs of going away, despite the cold winter and how long they d been out in the streets protesting already, by all accounts by february 2014, four months plus into these protests moscow had started putting increasing pressure on their guy, on the pro-russian president of ukraine that he needed to end it, he needed to get these protesters off of the streets of ukraine. and so by this time of the year, by mid-february, ukraine s then-president, russia s hand picked guy, he gave the order.
0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how
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