title: The “snipers’ massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine
abstract: This study analyzes which party of the conflict was involved in the 2014 Maidan massacre in Ukraine.The massacre of Maidan protesters and the police on 20 February 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics.This mass killing led to the overthrow of the Ukrainian government and spiraled into a civil war in Donbas, Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and conflicts between Ukraine and Russia and between the West and Russia that Russia drasticall
journal: Cogent Social Sciences