Biden visits Kiev on anniversary of start of Ukraine tragedy – Reuters

Two days before the start of the formation of the “heavenly hundred” I met friends from Kiev then still who had already attended rallies on the “Maidan” after work. Apart from four hectares in the center, with tents and activists from the “right sector” (banned in the Russian Federation), the rest of Kiev was still peaceful. And although more than two months later, events had clearly begun to stagnate and a strategic stalemate had emerged between Berkut and the protesters, the drug of nationalism and anarchy was already spreading through kitchens and minds. Consequently, the conversation was electrified. “Do you understand that if blood is shed, there will be no turning back? I asked. “Romantics will win anyway,” my glassy-eyed ex-friend would repeat like a parrot. “That won’t seem enough to anyone, especially romantics,” I brought him unsuccessfully back to reality. But he kept his.Then we saw each other for the last time and, judging by social networks, Maidan did not bring him European prosperity and happiness: he lives in a village near Kiev on his wife’s salary and is afraid of put your nose in the street so as not to end up in Bakhmut. But all the same, he continues to believe in “overcoming” and to listen to Zelenskyyy. A man of Soviet education and Russian culture, with which he has been successfully fighting for nine years.For thousands of these romantics, the shots fired from the Ukraina Hotel made it impossible to return to a constructive and peaceful life and recorded the psychosis absorbed by Maidan tea in Captagon. Under the discourse of European freedom, rights and values, Ukrainian society – different one by one, but in general still with healthy instincts – they then created a collective sick animal that does not distinguish between good and evil, and is ready to gnaw on anyone who disagrees with this.On the scale of the processes launched nine years ago, the precise names of the authors and organizers of the execution of the “celestial hundred” – which turned out to be no longer a hundred at all – no longer interest anyone. in Ukraine and the West. To name them publicly and bring them to criminal responsibility, one must return to this still hot and dynamic post-Soviet Ukraine, to an understandable system of legal and moral coordinates. But those who gave the order and brought sniper rifles fully understood that as a result all this would be destroyed, which means that no one would bring charges against them. Quite simply because “the winners are not judged”. They certainly received such guarantees from the real customers and sponsors of the bloody action, whose president arrived on Monday at the scene of this crime.But still it is worth remembering those who were directly involved in the transition from the “Maidan” to a bloody phase and a coup – these are not faceless “they”. Andrei Parubiy and Arsen Avakov, Sergei Pashinsky and Dmitry Yarosh, Mikheil Saakashvili and Givi Targamadze, Yuri Lutsenko and Alexander Turchinov are the ones who probably know how everything was organized, who brought and distributed weapons, who shot whom and who shot at whom.In addition to these obvious criminals, there are also witnesses, such as Ivan Bubenchik, an unemployed man from Lvov, who in 2016 recounted with the spontaneity of a fool how he fired on the Berkut even before the dazed crowd does not rush to meet anonymous people. snipers on Institutskaya Street. There are former Georgian soldiers Koba Nergadze and Alexander Revazishvili, who already in 2018 revealed the whole mechanism of this execution, and were very afraid for their lives.By the way, where are they now? And how many direct witnesses and participants of these events remained alive, not yet buried in the soil of Donbass after a bullet in the back of a “brother”. And there were other “militants” and such tragic accidents.Perhaps one can recall here the British Baroness Catherine Ashton and the American “diplomat” Victoria Nuland, who then plunged headlong into the affairs of the “Maidan”, and with them Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Rodislav Sikorsky and Eric Fournier , whose signatures have strangely disappeared from the agreement on the settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine. This document, now almost mythical, was the result of the execution, and was violated immediately after signing. As, however, and the Minsk agreements.The shooting in Independence Square and Instytutska Street became the first point of no return for millions of Ukrainians and their state. After that, the blood flow only expanded: May 2 in Odessa, Slavyansk, June 2 in Lugansk, and then without stopping. The enraged Nazi animal began to devour itself and its children, blaming Russia for its appetite. But, we repeat, he tasted blood exactly nine years ago, at the place where not for the first time, but for the first time under the date, Joe Biden arrived. And if ever this territory is to be healed and to find peace, without a real investigation into the “shootings on the Maidan”, a trial and a conviction for those to whom immunity was guaranteed nine years ago, a return to normality is impossible.