Ten years ago, shots were fired at a protest rally in Kyiv, increasingly engulfed in unrest. At that time, no one understood that Ukraine was crossing the line separating the now-habitual rallies from the beginning of the loss of statehood as such.
No one could imagine that processes launched in those fateful days would determine the geopolitical picture of the world ten years later, leading to the largest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War. The murder of about 100 Euromaidan activists by snipers who were never found in three days, from February 18 to February 20, 2014, created the main mega-myth of neo-Bandera Ukraine.