Protests starts in Maidan, The Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine in November 2013 as President Viktor Yanukovych suddenly announces that he will not sign a trade pact and a political association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. The Euromaidan protest movement starts as a peaceful protest. But soon it develope into violent clashes between protesters an police. In February 2104 violence escalate and on Thursday 20 February about 80 protesters are killed, many of them killed by snipers.