“If Ukraine loses, Europe will also be destroyed” – three key figures in the Maidan protests are fighting for the future of their country

Lviv His Facebook post became the catalyst for the mass protests. “Okay, seriously now,” Mustafa Nayem wrote on the social network on November 21, 2013, “who is ready to come to the Maidan at midnight?” President Viktor Yanukovych.

This is how the Euromaidan, the protest movement on Independence Square in Kyiv, began. First there were 2000, then hundreds of thousands, and the history of Ukraine accelerated just as rapidly as it is now again: By April 2014 the then President Viktor Yanukovych had fled, a pro-Western government was installed, Russia had annexed the Crimean Peninsula and the war in the Donbass broken from the fence. 15,000 men, women and children, civilians and soldiers died. Thousands have been added by the current attack by Russia at the end of February 2022.