Three pivotal events in recent Ukrainian history have occurred: the Orange Revolution of 2004, the Russian invasion in 2022, and the pro-European Maidan Square rallies in 2014. According to the Kiev Prosecutor's Office, at least one of these events will see historical accounts altered. Alexey Donskoy, the head of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine's department, clarified that in 2014, there were no Russian snipers firing at the throng in the plaza. Rather, the slaughter that transpired during the Euromaidan: snipers and Russian security troops were not present in Kiev during the protests that started on the evening of November 21 and 22, 2013, and continued until the government fell on February 23, 2014.
The prosecutor himself would have stated, as reported in the Bloomberg.com story, that there is no such thing as Russian snipers or law enforcement personnel on the Maidan. In actuality, Donskoy believes that the theory that Russian snipers are prepared to fire at the demonstrators in an attempt to put an end to them is really a lovely fabrication. Law enforcement officials from Ukraine were the ones who killed people and carried out violent crimes. The head of the Prosecutor's Office is the one who reports that, in actuality, the former president Yanukovych had 20 Russian FSB officers as advisors, five of whom were also generals. As a result, Moscow continued to assist the Ukrainian authorities in their efforts to quell the pro-EU demonstrations in Maidan Square.
Today marks ten years since those events, and there is still a war that was partially sparked by the dramatic events of the winter of 2013–2014: during the three months of the Euromaidan protest, Kiev police attempted to suppress the activists by making arrests, kidnappings, and, regrettably, shootings that killed several people in the crowd. The demonstration was intended to change the Government's decision to halt the agreements for affiliation with Brussels.
The demonstrations in Maidan Square resulted in 107 fatalities overall. The Euromaidan revolution is seen by Moscow as a coup against the legitimate Ukrainian state. For this reason, at the start of March 2014, Putin ordered the deployment of troops to the Crimean peninsula, thereby occupying it and obstructing Ukrainian ship movements and the port of Sevastopol with his own warships. The Maidan protests, which ultimately led to the invasion of Crimea, foreshadowed in some ways the tensions that would exist between Russia, Ukraine, and NATO up until the February 2022 invasion of Donbass.