On Feb. 20, 2014, 48 people lost their lives in what has come to be remembered as the bloodiest episode in Ukraine’s EuroMaidan Revolution. Most of the people who died in those fateful hours were picked off by snipers of the now-disbanded Berkut riot police.
EuroMaidan Revolution
Hromadske: How Ukraine investigates EuroMaidan’s bloodiest days, 5 years on
Ukrainians light candles next to the light beams symbolizing the activist's souls killed during anti-government protests in 2014, at the memorial for Maidan activists dubbed the 'Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred', not far from the Independence Square in Kyiv, on Feb. 20, 2019.
