After months of ongoing protest, the Maidan, the central square in the heart of Kiev, has been the scene of intense violence over the last 72 hours with more than a hundred killed, citizens and protestors targeted by police snipers or gunned down by special forces using automatic weapons.
The videos, photos and eyewitness accounts of a city in flames and a people in open revolt against their government are shocking. How did Ukrainian society reach this point?
Off the Hour`s Andre Goulet spoke with protestor and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Natalia Stepaniuk, to find out.
This interview was aired on CKUT's news program Off the Hour on Friday, February 21st.
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