Winter on Fire Page #4

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People were not afraid here.

It was more frightening to watch

all of these events on TV,

than to come here to participate in them.

From here, we were throwing

Molotov cocktails and stones.

Take gas, machine oil and saltpeter,

mix it together and shake well.

Take a cloth rag and make a wick,

light it up and throw.

Convict out!

Mostly here we were burning tires,

so the fire could keep

the Berkut from attacking us.

After several days of hard resistance,

people were very exhausted.

-Glory to Ukraine!

-Glory to the heroes!

And at sunrise,

when everyone was extremely tired,

Berkut realized...

"It's the right moment to attack.

Let's clean up this place."

People on our side

were disorganized and confused.

Protesters and civilians

mixed with policemen,

mixed with the soldiers,

a chaotic jumble.

When they attack people,

the police went first,

behind them were the Berkut

followed by the Titushky.

Titushky are hired thugs,

who have no dignity or conscience.

They sold themselves out for money.

Many of them were released from prison,

criminals that were hired to do this job.

We're here for an idea.

You're standing here

in the cold for an idea?

We want to keep order in Ukraine.

Titushky...

they don't have principles.

For less than ten bucks,

they are willing to not only wave a flag,

but also to kill.

Titushky love only money.

They betrayed the Ukrainian nation.

Titushky were standing behind me,

waiting for the right moment,

and they knocked me to the ground.

After that, some Berkut

ran up to me and I got captured.

Bring him back!

Bring him f***ing back!

They tried to dishonor him,

but instead dishonored themselves.

He stood with his head held high.

He behaved with dignity.

It caused a great

emotional outburst among people.

People were standing

15 feet from a Berkut policeman,

and he was shooting without stopping.

But people took sticks

and started attacking him.

The troops were shooting

directly at the Red Cross signs.

Don't shoot!

-Where is that wounded guy?

-Get away!

I'm a doctor!

I'm just a doctor!

I mean you no harm!

I showed him the sign of the Red Cross,

but he shot my leg.

The first victims with

wounded eyes appeared that day.

When we brought in the third man

with no eyes...

I came outside and

had a panic attack.

FIRST AID:

The first improvised

medical aid station

was located near

a sushi restaurant.

People brought bottles

with drinking water,

lemons, vinegar...

Anything they thought

could help with tear gas.

In the morning,

when Berkut attacked,

they completely destroyed

that medical station.

You bastards!

Don't touch the medicine!

They threw stun grenades inside

and sprayed tear gas.

We had to run away.

All the medicine was left behind.

We couldn't even imagine that

something like this could happen.

Among the rubber bullets

that were distributed to Berkut,

it seems someone substituted them

with live ammunition on purpose.

It was scary, to be honest with you,

when they started to shoot people

with real bullets.

You hear the sound of

a bullet passing your head,

and see people dropping dead.

I want to ask them

who gave birth to you?

A mother or a wolf?

How could this happen?

Against your own people?

One of the most horrible moments

I've seen was on Hrushevskogo Street,

when the Berkut shot Serhiy Nigoyan.

How could such a good person be killed?

He was so young and had

his whole life ahead of him.

Everyone who knew Serhiy

always said the same thing about him,

how pure, how beautiful

and how open this human being was.

We still can't believe he's gone.

We wait...

I'm here and I keep thinking that

he is up there on Hrushevskogo Street.

I can't believe...

Those in power were banking that

Maidan would fall apart on its own,

but after the events on Hrushevskogo,

and after the first deaths,

Zhyznevskyi and Nigoyan...

people decided to stay until the end.

For us, it was the point of no return.

I realized...

that the time of this government

has come to an end.

-Glory to Ukraine!

-Glory to the heroes!

-Glory to the nation!

-Death to our enemies!

The AutoMaidan is trapped.

Tonight's main story is attacks

on the AutoMaidan Activists.

ATTACKS ON AUTOMAIDAN

Tonight they were

patrolling Kyiv streets

and hospitals where wounded

activists were brought.

But their cars were attacked

and many activists were arrested

and kidnapped by Berkut.

Our friends were missing,

so we went out to look for them...

but on the way...

It was a well-planned trap.

Berkut and traffic police

participated in it.

So we were captured.

-What are you doing?

-This is my wife!

We are just going home!

What the hell are you doing?

First, they smashed

and destroyed our car.

Then they dragged us out

on the street and beat us.

After that they put us in a bus

and took us to Mariyinsky Park...

...where they released me.

They were severely beating the men,

who were getting terribly injured.

They were beating us to death.

-Are you insane? Call the police!

-People are kidnapped here!

-Don't block the road.

-Call the police! People are kidnapped!

I thought I would never

see my friends alive.

Considering how many people

were kidnapped and injured,

at that point,

it was really scary.

I just came from negotiations with

the President of Ukraine, Yanukovych.

As of today, Berkut will stop

using force against activists.

All kidnapped protesters

will be released.

We don't believe it!

I have no guarantee

these are not lies,

we've been deceived many times...

If we go home

we can be caught!

They'll kill us one by one!

And nobody judges them!

Why does the government

not judge its own crimes?

When I went to do my regular

night security watch,

my little daughter came to me,

and asked me not to go.

"Poppa," she said, "I'll grow up...

and bring them down myself."

And I told her,

"If we don't take them down now,

no one will ever be able to do it."

Maidan started in November.

It was able to survive through

many difficult events.

But the moment came when the people

of Maidan formulated their own goals,

as a set of specific political demands.

The first thing we insisted on

was the release of political prisoners.

The second one was

establishing equality of power

between the parliament

and the president

to establish well-balanced

branches of government.

The third one was

early presidential re-elections.

Those for this, raise your hand!

Only under these three conditions

could Maidan end in a peaceful way.

These were our demands in February

and they were supposed to be discussed

and approved by the parliament.

On February 18th, a crowd of unarmed

people gathered to go to the Parliament.

People without weapons or anything.

A lot of patriots

responded to the call

for a peaceful rally

to the parliament.

We hope that our

representatives will hear us!

We supposed that a peaceful protest

and rally to the parliament,

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