This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode 29 with myself and Darryl Cooper.

Suddenly we heard people screaming and ambulance sirens. Some of the injured protesters were dragged to safety.

I could not find my colleague in the crowd. Some people began running away from the front line

shouting they are killing us. They are using collision accoffs and real bullets. Special forces

started attacking. Running forward with their shields beating people with their batons.

There were not enough guys from our self-defense group there. Most of them were near the parliament.

Here we saw mostly civilians, men and women, old and young, beaten and chased and shot. None of them

were prepared for what was happening to them. Then people started panicking, screaming and running

away. The narrow street was jammed. I kept filming but Vatem was begging me to leave. Suddenly I saw

special forces less than five meters away. The crowd was pushing. Vatem was leading me through.

Then they started shooting, shooting for real from behind our backs. They were also attacking us

from the left and from the right. We were trapped. Our only chance to escape was through the narrow street.

The panic was increasing. People shouting and kicking. Many faces were covered by blood.

By the evening the whole square was burning. Protesters, tents, flags and key buildings were

destroyed by fire. I'll never forget the voices of the girls ringing from the stage still singing

heroic Ukrainian combat songs while the square was being eaten by fire. Two days later,

the government's special forces chose a different tactic to try and stop the protesters.

They planted snipers on the roofs of the buildings. The snipers would fire down into the crowds.

On that day, about 80 more people were killed. But even that didn't stop the people.

They stood their ground. They would not retreat.

On February 22nd, the brutal dictator fled Kiev in the middle of the night.

I know there are some excerpts from an article written by someone named Yana,

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