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  1. ​ @PerceivedREALITY999  The Maidan Revolution took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of Kreml puppet President Yanukovych and a return to the 2004 Constitution. Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. His platform included economic modernisation, increased spending, continuing TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION and non-alignment in defence policy. His years in power saw democratic backsliding, the jailing of Tymoshenko, a decline in press freedom and an increase in cronyism and corruption. In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests began in response to President Yanukovych's SUDDEN DECISION NOT TO SIGN an already negotieted political association and free trade agreement with EU, instead choosing closer ties to Russia. Earlier that year, the Ukrainian parliament had overwhelmingly approved finalizing the agreement with the EU. RUSSIA HAD PUT MUCH PRESSURE on Ukraine to reject it, but they declined. The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of Yanukovych and the Azarov government. Protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government CORRUPTION AND ABUSE POWER, the influence of oligarchs, police brutality, and human rights violations. Ressive anti-protest laws fuelled further anger. In January and February 2014 further protests resulted in the Azarov government resignation. On 21 February, Yanukovych and the parliamentary opposition signed an agreement to bring about an interim unity government, constitutional reforms and early elections. Yanukovych fled the city the same day. The next day, 22 February, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office by 328 to 0. Parliament restored the 2004 amendments to the Ukrainian constitution. An interim government, led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, signed the EU association agreement and disbanded the Berkut. Petro Poroshenko became president after winning the 2014 presidential elections. Russia then occupied and then annexed Crimea, with “little green men” (Russian masked soldiers). More “little green men” together with Russian armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings and proclaimed the independent states of Donetsk and Luhansk, SPARKING THE DONBASS WAR. The Russian Federation initially denied that these were Russian military forces, but on 17 April 2014 Russian President Putin finally confirmed the presence of the Russian military. Alexander Borodai, Prime Minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, stated that 50,000 RUSSIAN citizens fought in the Donbas up to August 2015. These soldiers are the ones that the Ukraninan government fought against, NOT “shelling of innocents in Donbass”, which Russian trolls will tell you. Then in 2022 they invaded with much larger forces (even if they said it was just a drill. The Ukrainians, UN and other nations tried with diplomacy, but Putin DENIED. He wanted his imperialistic war, no matter what) Since then they have plundered and raped their way through the South-Eastern Ukraine. Shelled civilian houses and infrastructure. They are looting and plunder all over. Trucks after trucks loaded with stolen goods (washing machines, toilets??, computers) has been sent home to Russia. The Russians in the now occupied Donbass has started indoctrination of children. All history books that mention Ukraine as a nation are forbidden and burned. The children have to speak Russian instead of Ukrainian (both languages was teach before). Also many children are kidnapped/deportet to Russia. Mostly those who the authoroties suspects are pro-Ukrainian. Some of them far East in Russia, where they have small chances for returning home. International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women and children, torture and mutilitation of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas.
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