![]() ![]() JAMES JONES: This was the deadliest fighting since the protests began in late November. So we started moving forward with the shield and with Molotov cocktails, and this is how we came to Instytutska, to the very front line. I found a wooden shield and told my friend to follow me because he’s smaller than me. I didn’t expect my father to come, but he found me and he started filming it all. Dmytro’s father filmed what happened to him and his son.ĭMYTRO HOLUBNYCHY: I woke up at 6:00, and they told me we were under attack from the riot police. Early on his first morning, fighting broke out with riot police. JAMES JONES: Dmytro told how he’d come to the square to join the protesters. Whenever I try to sleep, smoke appears before my eyes and the image of that man being killed. The 16-year-old student told me what he’d experienced a few days before in the square still haunted him.ĭMYTRO HOLUBNYCHY: I can’t sleep. One of the first people I met was Dmytro Holubnychy. ![]() Widely criticized as a corrupt leader, he had rejected a trade deal with the European Union in favor of one with his close ally, Russian president Vladimir Putin. JAMES JONES, FRONTLINE: It was late February when I came to the capital, Kiev, to Independence Square, where protesters were demanding the ouster of President Victor Yanukovich. It’s provoked one of the biggest confrontations between Russia and the United States since the cold war. He’s found himself on both sides of the conflict, witnessing the resurgence of hatreds dating back decades between fellow Ukrainians, watching as the former Soviet country veers to the brink of civil war. NARRATOR: Over the past three months, FRONTLINE’s James Jones has been traveling to Ukraine.
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