KIEV, Ukraine — I’m staying in a suite on one of the top floors of Hotel Ukraine. It’s February 20, four years to the day since dozens of protesters in Independence Square in Kiev were shot dead by snipers hiding in these very rooms. It’s silent as death in the halls and rooms.
The ghosts live down below, in the lobby and breakfast room where the wounded and dead were brought, and where doctors and the hotel staff slipped on the blood on the floor, running to save as many lives as they could.
And they live in the square out front, …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
