In the bitter cold winter months between November 2013 and February 2014, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians — sometimes up to a million — gathered in Kyiv’s Independence Square, or Maidan, and other central locations in the city demanding a break from Moscow’s orbit and a European future for themselves.
Those moments in time are captured expertly in the Oscar-nominated documentary Winter on Fire, by filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky.
Afineevsky chronicles the massive mobilization of Ukrainians against a regime they saw as authoritarian and corrupt, capturing the protesters’ bloody clashes with the government’s elite riot police force known as the Berkut.
The protests began …read more
Source: Voice of America
