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'''December 8, 2013.''' A group of extremists demolished and destroyed the monument to Lenin on Shevchenko Boulevard in Kiev. Responsibility for this act of vandalism was claimed by AUU Svoboda, which is represented in the Parliament. <ref name=":1" /> | '''December 8, 2013.''' A group of extremists demolished and destroyed the monument to Lenin on Shevchenko Boulevard in Kiev. Responsibility for this act of vandalism was claimed by AUU Svoboda, which is represented in the Parliament. <ref name=":1" /> | ||
Kyiv Post reports the preperation of Molotov Cocktails on Maidan Square.<ref>[https://www.kyivpost.com/post/10055 EuroMaidan rallies in Ukraine – Dec. 8]</ref> | |||
'''December 10, 2013.''' Opponents of the current government put up a fierce resistance to law enforcement officers who were trying to comply with the decision of the Shevchenko district court of Kiev on the Prohibition of blocking government buildings and obstructing the governmental activity. Euromaidan supporters barricaded themselves inside the Kiev city state administration building and deliberately provoked the police to use force by throwing stones from the windows at law enforcement and pouring water over them using fire hoses. Due to the gravity of the situation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was forced to withdraw the Special Forces from the captured building. <ref name=":1" /> | '''December 10, 2013.''' Opponents of the current government put up a fierce resistance to law enforcement officers who were trying to comply with the decision of the Shevchenko district court of Kiev on the Prohibition of blocking government buildings and obstructing the governmental activity. Euromaidan supporters barricaded themselves inside the Kiev city state administration building and deliberately provoked the police to use force by throwing stones from the windows at law enforcement and pouring water over them using fire hoses. Due to the gravity of the situation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was forced to withdraw the Special Forces from the captured building. <ref name=":1" /> | ||
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'''December 10, 2013.''' The head of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe of the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) said during a press conference in Strasbourg that members of his political group intend to be constantly present on Independence Square in Kiev to support the «pro-European demonstration».<ref name=":1" /> | '''December 10, 2013.''' The head of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe of the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) said during a press conference in Strasbourg that members of his political group intend to be constantly present on Independence Square in Kiev to support the «pro-European demonstration».<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''December 11, 2013.''' Euromaidan protestors set up barricades around the perimeter of Maidan and Khreschatyk Boulevard and announced the resumption of picketing the government quarter. <ref name=":1" /> | '''December 11, 2013.''' | ||
* Euromaidan protestors set up barricades around the perimeter of Maidan and Khreschatyk Boulevard and announced the resumption of picketing the government quarter. <ref name=":1" /> | |||
* Former President Leonid Kravchuk hosts a "roundtable" discussion with members of all parties and all of Ukraine's past presidents with stated aim to diffuse the crisis. The talks have Yanukovych's blessing, the Opposition refuses to attend.<ref>[https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-protests-nuland-yanukovych/25197108.html Ashton: Yanukovych Promised Solution Within 24 Hours]</ref> | |||
'''December 15, 2013.''' | |||
* Two U.S. senators, Democrat Chris Murphy and Republican John McCain, made speeches at the «Euromaidan» in Kiev. Both American politicians stated that the U.S. supported the desire of the participants of Euromaidan to join Europe.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
* Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia admits at a meeting of the US Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee that the US State Department has spent 5 ''billion'' dollars "assisting Ukraine".<ref>[https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-and-implications-of-the-crisis-in-ukraine-hearing BUSINESS MEETING AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE HEARING]</ref> | |||
'''December 22, 2013.''' | '''December 22, 2013.''' | ||
* Activists of All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, with the use of physical force, expelled journalist Viktor Gatsenko from the captured building of Kiev Administration, obscenely insulting and threatening him with death because of his political views. There were identified, among those who had expelled the journalist, such people as the deputy head of the Kiev branch of AUU Svoboda, Ruslan Andreiko, and one of the leaders of the party’s student organization, Artem Ruban.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
* The monument to Holocaust victims in Nikolaev was defiled. An inverted Satanic cross was painted on the memorial plaque in indelible black spray.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
In the early hours of '''January 1, 2014.''' A Nativity play was performed on the Euromaidan stage; during it, a People’s Deputy from the Svoboda party, Bohdan Beniuk, performed the role of a «yid.» His monologue updated traditional | In the early hours of '''January 1, 2014.''' A Nativity play was performed on the Euromaidan stage; during it, a People’s Deputy from the Svoboda party, Bohdan Beniuk, performed the role of a «yid.» His monologue updated traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes in the context of modern Ukrainian realities: «Yesterday I made some deals, today I became a deputy,» «I lend out a bit of money and collect interest from it,» «East and west—everything is mine, our people are everywhere,» and so on.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''January 1, 2014.''' In downtown Kiev, a demonstration commemorated the 105th anniversary of the birth of [[Stepan Bandera]], an ideologue and founder of Ukrainian ultranationalism, and a collaborator with the German Nazis. The torchlight procession, which was led by the Svoboda party, attracted around 10,000 participants.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 1, 2014.''' In downtown Kiev, a demonstration commemorated the 105th anniversary of the birth of [[Stepan Bandera]], an ideologue and founder of Ukrainian ultranationalism, and a collaborator with the German Nazis. The torchlight procession, which was led by the Svoboda party, attracted around 10,000 participants.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''January 11, 2014.''' In Kiev extremists attacked H. Wertheimer, a 26-year-old Israeli citizen who is a teacher in the Rosenberg synagogue in Kiev.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 11, 2014.''' | ||
* In Kiev extremists attacked H. Wertheimer, a 26-year-old Israeli citizen who is a teacher in the Rosenberg synagogue in Kiev.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
* ''Foreign Affairs'', the official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, publishes an article titled: "Yanukovych Must Go - Ukrainians Will Protest as Long as His Corrupt Regime Exists"<ref>[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/eastern-europe-caucasus/2013-12-11/yanukovych-must-go Yanukovych Must Go - Ukrainians Will Protest as Long as His Corrupt Regime Exists]</ref> | |||
'''January 17, 2014.''' After leaving a synagogue, Dov Ber Glickman, a 33-year-old Russian citizen and congregant studying at the yeshiva (a religious educational institution), was beaten up. His attackers hit him with their hands and feet, and it appeared that the attackers had blades installed in the toes of their shoes, which left deep wounds.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 17, 2014.''' After leaving a synagogue, Dov Ber Glickman, a 33-year-old Russian citizen and congregant studying at the yeshiva (a religious educational institution), was beaten up. His attackers hit him with their hands and feet, and it appeared that the attackers had blades installed in the toes of their shoes, which left deep wounds.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
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'''January 24, 2014.''' In the Ukraine regions, the formation of the so-called «People’s Self-Defense groups» and the so-called «People’s Councils» began under the supervision of AUU Svoboda. Preparations began for carrying out the rebellion and seizure of power in Kiev, as well as fundraising and the stockpiling of ammunition for rioters on Maidan.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 24, 2014.''' In the Ukraine regions, the formation of the so-called «People’s Self-Defense groups» and the so-called «People’s Councils» began under the supervision of AUU Svoboda. Preparations began for carrying out the rebellion and seizure of power in Kiev, as well as fundraising and the stockpiling of ammunition for rioters on Maidan.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''January 25, 2014.''' A delegation of the Lithuanian Seimas, headed by the Vice-Speaker Petras Austrevicius, spoke from the rostrum of the Euromaidan in Kiev. | '''January 25, 2014.''' A delegation of the Lithuanian Seimas, headed by the Vice-Speaker [https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/who-we-are/petras-austrevicius Petras Austrevicius], spoke from the rostrum of the Euromaidan in Kiev. | ||
'''January 24–26, 2014.''' Forcible takeovers of the regional administration buildings in Sumy, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Uzhgorod were attempted.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 24–26, 2014.''' Forcible takeovers of the regional administration buildings in Sumy, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Uzhgorod were attempted.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
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'''January 26, 2014.''' Member of the European Parliament Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (Poland) said in an interview with Ukrainian Week: «The President has lost legitimacy.» Earlier, in his speech at the Maidan on February 22, 2014, he also condemned the «illegitimate» use of force by the government of Ukraine.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 26, 2014.''' Member of the European Parliament Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (Poland) said in an interview with Ukrainian Week: «The President has lost legitimacy.» Earlier, in his speech at the Maidan on February 22, 2014, he also condemned the «illegitimate» use of force by the government of Ukraine.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''January 27, 2014.''' The opponents of the current government seized the buildings of regional administrations in all areas of Western Ukraine, except for the Transcarpathian region.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 27, 2014.''' The opponents of the current government seized the buildings of regional administrations in all areas of Western Ukraine, except for the Transcarpathian region.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''Januray 28, 2014.''' | |||
Date of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM '''"Fuck the EU"''' phone call] between Victoria Nuland and Geoff Pyatt. It is notable for discussing and """predicting""" the precise structure of the post-Janukovic Cabinet staffing 25 days before his removal from power. | |||
'''January 29, 2014.''' At a meeting with the head of the opposition party Udar V. Klitschko, held at the Opera Hotel, the Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok (Germany) openly sided with the opposition, calling on President Viktor Yanukovych to fulfill the demands of the opposition.<ref name=":1" /> | '''January 29, 2014.''' At a meeting with the head of the opposition party Udar V. Klitschko, held at the Opera Hotel, the Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok (Germany) openly sided with the opposition, calling on President Viktor Yanukovych to fulfill the demands of the opposition.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
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'''February 21, 2014.''' People’s Self-Defense activists fired at a bus with Belarusian tourists who were traveling to Western Ukraine. As a result, the bus driver, a Russian citizen, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound. <ref name=":1" /> | '''February 21, 2014.''' People’s Self-Defense activists fired at a bus with Belarusian tourists who were traveling to Western Ukraine. As a result, the bus driver, a Russian citizen, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound. <ref name=":1" /> | ||
The "[[wikipedia:Agreement_on_settlement_of_political_crisis_in_Ukraine|Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine]]", signed by all parties plus the foreign minsiters of Germany and Poland. It required the creation of a temporary "National Unity Government", to be replaced following new Presidential Elections by the end of 2014. It also called for a full investigation into the shootings on the Maidan the previous day. Yanukovych pledged that the government would not declare a state of emergency or call in the military, and would pull all police back from the site of the protests, in return for protesters surrendering all public buildings and illegal weapons. Leaders of the militant protesters - including Dmitryo Yarosh of the neo-Nazi Right Sector - rejected the agreement, and threatened to storm the Parliament and Presidental Residence if Yanukoyvch did not resign immediately.<ref>[https://www.sott.net/article/464888-Timeline-Euromaidan-the-original-Ukraine-Crisis Timeline: Euromaidan, the original "Ukraine Crisis" - Entry for '''21/2/2014''']</ref> | |||
'''February 21, 2014.''' The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the leaders of the three opposition parties — Vladimir Klitschko (Udar), A. Yatsenyuk (AUU Batkivshchyna), and O. Tyagnibok (AUU Svoboda) — signed an agreement on resolving the crisis in Ukraine, mediated by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Poland, and France, which included a return to the 2004 Constitution, constitutional reform (to be carried out before September 2014), the organization of early presidential elections no later than December 2014, the formation of a national unity government, the end of opposition occupation of administrative and public buildings, the surrender of illegal weapons, and the renunciation of the use of force on both sides. On the same day, when the parliamentary opposition leaders publically announced on Maidan the conditions of signing the Agreement, a representative of the so-called «Maidan Self-Defense» V. Parasyuk said that he and the rest of the Self-Defense members were not satisfied with a document that agreed on gradual political reforms. He demanded the immediate resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych; otherwise Self-Defense was going to go to storm the Presidential Administration and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This proclamation was met with applause. Pravyi Sektor leader D. Yarosh stated that the Agreement showed no clear commitment for the President resignation, the parliament’s dissolution, the punishment of heads of security agencies and other parties who had carried out «criminal orders». He called the agreement «another attempt to pull the wool over the people’s eyes» and refused to implement it.<ref name=":1" /> | '''February 21, 2014.''' The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the leaders of the three opposition parties — Vladimir Klitschko (Udar), A. Yatsenyuk (AUU Batkivshchyna), and O. Tyagnibok (AUU Svoboda) — signed an agreement on resolving the crisis in Ukraine, mediated by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Poland, and France, which included a return to the 2004 Constitution, constitutional reform (to be carried out before September 2014), the organization of early presidential elections no later than December 2014, the formation of a national unity government, the end of opposition occupation of administrative and public buildings, the surrender of illegal weapons, and the renunciation of the use of force on both sides. On the same day, when the parliamentary opposition leaders publically announced on Maidan the conditions of signing the Agreement, a representative of the so-called «Maidan Self-Defense» V. Parasyuk said that he and the rest of the Self-Defense members were not satisfied with a document that agreed on gradual political reforms. He demanded the immediate resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych; otherwise Self-Defense was going to go to storm the Presidential Administration and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This proclamation was met with applause. Pravyi Sektor leader D. Yarosh stated that the Agreement showed no clear commitment for the President resignation, the parliament’s dissolution, the punishment of heads of security agencies and other parties who had carried out «criminal orders». He called the agreement «another attempt to pull the wool over the people’s eyes» and refused to implement it.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
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'''February 24, 2014.''' In Novoarkhangelsky in the Kirovograd district, St. Vladimir Church, which was formerly being used by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UPC), was transferred into the ownership of representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate. The transfer was carried out on the basis of a court decision made under pressure of demonstrations primarily from the nationalist party Svoboda. In 2006, the church abbot had given the building to representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate secretly, without the knowledge of church management of his own church community. After lengthy proceedings in April of 2013, the court decided in favor of the UPC of the Moscow Patriarchate. However the schismatics appealed the legal decision just before «Svoboda» members provoked clashes with UPC priests and parishioners. As a result, the church was shut down for renovation by the authorities, but after the Euromaidan victory in February 2014, the schismatics won their appeal.<ref name=":1" /> | '''February 24, 2014.''' In Novoarkhangelsky in the Kirovograd district, St. Vladimir Church, which was formerly being used by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UPC), was transferred into the ownership of representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate. The transfer was carried out on the basis of a court decision made under pressure of demonstrations primarily from the nationalist party Svoboda. In 2006, the church abbot had given the building to representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate secretly, without the knowledge of church management of his own church community. After lengthy proceedings in April of 2013, the court decided in favor of the UPC of the Moscow Patriarchate. However the schismatics appealed the legal decision just before «Svoboda» members provoked clashes with UPC priests and parishioners. As a result, the church was shut down for renovation by the authorities, but after the Euromaidan victory in February 2014, the schismatics won their appeal.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
'''February 25, 2014.''' | '''February 25, 2014.''' | ||
'' | * In a leaked Phone call from the Foreign Minister of Estonia to the EU Foreign Affairs Chief it is brought up that the [[Maidan Snipers]] fired on police and protesters alike.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573923/Estonian-Foreign-Ministry-confirms-authenticity-leaked-phone-call-discussing-Kiev-snipers-shot-protesters-possibly-hired-Ukraines-new-leaders.html Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked phone call discussing how Kiev snipers who shot protesters were possibly hired by Ukraine's new leaders]</ref> Access to the original leak on Youtube is blocked in Germany.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_YkdGbWqk Title unknown because my government told Youtube they] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_YkdGbWqk can't show me this.]</ref> Estonia denies claims that it accused the Maidanoids of hiring the snipers, but confirmed that the leaked call itself was genuine. | ||
* Pravyi Sektor and Maidan Self-Defense activists broke into the office of the Trading Services firm in Ivano-Frankivsk, and seized the Director I. Dutka, who led the Ivano-Frankivsk city division of the Party of Regions. He was taken out to the crowd and forced to kneel and ask for forgiveness.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
* Information surfaced about preparations being made for an attempt to capture the Pochaev Lavra spiritual center. In order to prevent this provocative act, numerous Orthodox believers started gathering at Lavra, blocked the main entrance to the monastery, and created a solid living wall in front of the Holy Gates of the cloister. These conditions made it impossible for the group of nationalist radicals and schismatics arriving at Lavra in six buses to carry out their original plan. <ref name=":1" /> | |||
* A group of aggressively disposed people accompanied by journalists from the 1+1 television channel entered the administrative building of the Sumy Eparchy. The leaders of the group were N. F. Karpenko (Kiev Patriarchate deacon), Professor I. P. Mozgovoy, and a UPC KP «priest» in civilian clothes. N. F. Karpenko categorically demanded that Archbishop Eulogius, archbishop of Sumy and Akhtyrka, conduct joint services with the schismatic Archbishop Methodius in the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Sumy. He then blamed the priesthood of the canonical Church of unwillingness to pray for those killed at Maidan. In response to all of his arguments with respect to the canonical obstacles in questions of concelebration, the Archbishop Eulogius was informed that if he refused, «all Maidan will be here to throw Molotov cocktails at the eparchy.» A few days prior to this incident, a crowd of Kiev Patriarchate parishioners blocked the Archbishop Eulogius into the cathedral yelling, «get out of Moscow’s ass!» and «Eulogius to the gallows!» <ref name=":1" /> | |||
'''February 26, 2014.''' The «Kiev regime» authorized the storming of the building of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The attack was perpetrated by activists from right-wing Ukrainian groups (Pravyi Sektor), insurgents from the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and Crimean Tatar-Wahhabi sympathizers. As a result of the massive attack, civilians who voluntarily defended the administrative building were killed.<ref name=":1" /> | '''February 26, 2014.''' The «Kiev regime» authorized the storming of the building of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The attack was perpetrated by activists from right-wing Ukrainian groups (Pravyi Sektor), insurgents from the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and Crimean Tatar-Wahhabi sympathizers. As a result of the massive attack, civilians who voluntarily defended the administrative building were killed.<ref name=":1" /> | ||