Andreas Brehme, who made West Germany world champions in 1990 with a penalty goal against Argentina, has died of cardiac arrest. Ten years ago today, the protests on Maidan Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev escalated.
They marked the beginning of the confrontation between Russia and the West that continues to this day. On the tenth anniversary of the suppression of the Maidan protests, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Volodyr recalled the bloody climax of the uprising. Christian Esch writes in a moving essay that Putin's attack on Ukraine in 2022 "is revenge"