It’s taken a decade, but the events of Ukraine’s Euromaidan are finally having their day in court.
The revolution that pushed the country’s pro-Russian president out of office, and which Russia tried to quash with armed intervention in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, looks today like a crucial link in the chain of events that led to Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.
As a Kyiv court found on 18 October 2023, in its final days, Ukraine’s Euromaidan protest was not a peaceful gathering, but an uprising against tyranny.