In Ukraine’s battle against Russian-backed separatists, civilians keep the army equipped.
Ukranian forces on patrol near Sloviansk. Photo: Reuters/Gleb Garanich
On 21 November 2013, as thousands of his fellow Ukrainians first gathered in Maidan Nezalezhnosti – Independence Square – in Kyiv to demonstrate against President Viktor Yanukovych, a 40-year-old IT entrepreneur named Yuri Biryukov felt a stirring of hope. Yanukovych’s decision not to sign the EU association agreement that would begin the process of drawing his country into Europe, and instead to seek improved ties with Russia, had angered much of the population. The government was already deeply unpopular; high-level …read more
Source: New Statesman
